...The seemingly universal network connection, twisted-pair Ethernet cable, has another role to play, providing electrical power to low-wattage electrical devices. Power over Ethernet (PoE) was ratified by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Eng...

...any organization with a network that reaches remote sites. This can include branch offices, unmanned information kiosks, alarm and control systems, and even HVAC systems for climate control. Other applications include unmanned remote monitoring stat...

...to enterprise IT and network environments. • Double Conversion — These UPSs offer protection from all power problems. Suitable for mission-critical applications, server farms, hospitals, etc. • The average system is hit by 120 power disturbances ...

...today's higher-speed networks. • OM3 and OM4 are both laser-optimized multimode fiber (LOMMF) and were developed to accommodate faster networks such as 10, 40, and 100 Gbps. Both are designed for use with 850-nm VCSELS (vertical-cavity surface-em...

...1000-Mbps • In computer networking, Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100-Mbps, against the original Ethernet speed of 10-Mbps. Of the fast Ethernet standards 100BASE-TX i...

...of both channel and network communication methods into one I/O interface. It takes advantage of hardware-intensive, quicker point-to-point channel links that offer low overhead, such as SCSI bus technology, as well as the broad connectivity and ...

...limits of a 100-Mbps network, you’ll probably want to upgrade at least parts of your system fairly soon to Category 5e (CAT5e) or higher. • Category 5e:  The improved Category 5 • Category 5e, also known as Enhanced Category 5, or CAT5e, was rati...