1. CCNA 1 v3.0 Module 4 Cable Testing

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4. Objectives

5. Waves

6. Sine Waves and Square Waves

8. Exponents and Logarithms

9. Decibels

10. Viewing Signals in Time and Frequency

12. Analog and Digital Signals in Time and Frequency

13. Noise in Time and Frequency

14. Bandwidth

15. Signaling over Copper and Fiber

19. Attenuation and Insertion Loss on Copper Media

20. Sources of Noise on Copper Media

21. Types of Crosstalk Near-end crosstalk (NEXT)

22. Types of Crosstalk Far-end crosstalk (FEXT)

23. Types of Crosstalk Power sum near-end crosstalk (PSNEXT)

24. Cable Testing Standards

27. Crosstalk

28. Time-based Parameters

29. Testing Optical Fiber

31. New Standard On June 20, 2002, the Category 6 (or Cat 6) addition to the TIA-568 standard was published. This new standard specifies the original set of performance parameters that need to be tested for Ethernet cabling as well as the passing scores for each of these tests. A quality cable tester is the Fluke DSP-LIA013 Channel/Traffic Adapter for Cat5e.

32. Summary