...Audio and IR remote control data and these are ideal for small office or home cinema solutions. • Distribution amplifiers and video switches are available for larger installations. Using these products it is possible build video networks with ve...

...frame formats and flow control as earlier Ethernet versions, networks readily recognize it, and it’s compatible with older Ethernet standards. Other high-speed technologies (ATM, for instance) present compatibility problems such as different frame ...

...or through switching systems. In this case the corresponding video splitters, video extenders, and video switches all must support HDCP to take part of the key information exchange. Every active device in the transmission chain must participate i...

...packets, they will not be able to communicate with other devices using different protocols, such as FTP. Plus, a feature-rich, IGMP-supported Layer 3 switch gives you the bandwidth control needed to send video from multiple sources over a LAN. •  

...based on coax cable systems, use the bus. In this one-cable LAN, all workstations are connected in succession (a "bus" arrangement) on a single cable. All transmissions go to all the connected workstations. • Each workstation then selects the tr...

...for high data-rate systems such as FDDI, multimedia, ATM, or any other network that requires the transfer of large, time-consuming data files. • Other advantages of fibre optic cable over copper include: • Greater distance • - You can run fibre...

...meet for CAT7 and CAT6a systems. It is not specifically required to meet the characteristics of the standards of CAT5, CAT5e or CAT6. Neither is it contributing significantly to the resilience of the cable to resist external RF noise such as mains i...

Category 5 and 5e • Category 5 and 5e • Category 5 • Category 5 (CAT5) cabling is good, solid cable for 100-Mbps LANs. The Category 5 standard has been around since 1991, so it’s well established. You’ll find existing Category 5 installati...

...with existing 10BASE-T systems and thus enables plug-and-play upgrades from 10BASE-T. Fast Ethernet is sometimes referred to as 100BASE-X where X is a placeholder for the FX and TX variants • Gigabit Ehernet • Gigabit Ethernet was the next step, in...

Power problems. • Power-problems • Sags • The Threat — A sag is a decline in the voltage level. Also known as “brownouts,“ sags are the most common power problem • The Cause — Sags can be caused locally by the start-up demands of electrical de...