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    Coaxial cable, or coax (pronounced /ˈkoʊ.æks/), is a type of electrical cable consisting of an inner conductor surrounded by a concentric conducting shield...
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  • Hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) is a broadband telecommunications network that combines optical fiber and coaxial cable. It has been commonly employed globally...
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    axis. The two-dimensional analog is concentric. Common examples: A coaxial cable has a wire conductor in the centre (D), a circumferential outer conductor...
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  • scanners. Different types of network cables, such as coaxial cable, optical fiber cable, and twisted pair cables, are used depending on the network's...
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    Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to consumers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or...
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    their antennas. While coaxial cables can go longer distances and have better protection from EMI than twisted pairs, coaxial cables are harder to work with...
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  • a single wire. After mid-century, coaxial cable came into use, with amplifiers. Late in the 20th century, all cables installed use optical fiber as well...
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  • Antenna feed (redirect from Antenna cable)
    surface of the coaxial shield is actually unbalanced. If that current can be blocked, then the coax becomes a "balanced line". Coaxial cable's great advantage...
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    Ethernet (redirect from Ethernet cable)
    Ethernet uses a thick coaxial cable as a shared medium. This was largely superseded by 10BASE2, which used a thinner and more flexible cable that was both cheaper...
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    sufficiently short segment of cable (much smaller than a wavelength, so that these quantities are not dependent on Z). The coaxial cable is specified as having...
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    transmission line include parallel line (ladder line, twisted pair), coaxial cable, and planar transmission lines such as stripline and microstrip. The...
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    made using coaxial cable near to the feed point of a balanced antenna, then the RF current that flows on the outer surface of the coaxial cable can be attenuated...
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    Triaxial cable, often referred to as triax for short, is a type of electrical cable similar to coaxial cable, but with the addition of an extra layer...
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    glass (RFoG) and coaxial cable infrastructure. Cable modems are primarily used to deliver broadband Internet access in the form of cable Internet, taking...
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    almost no radiation loss. Coaxial cables are commonly used at audio frequencies and above for convenience. A coaxial cable has a conductive wire inside...
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    was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. Coaxial cable, or coax (pronounced /ˈkoʊ.æks/) is a type of electrical cable that has an inner conductor surrounded...
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    are shielding, coaxial geometry, and twisted-pair geometry. Shielding makes use of the electrical principle of the Faraday cage. The cable is encased for...
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    inductance of the coax; that energy is proportional to the cable's measured inductance. The magnetic field inside a coaxial cable can be divided into...
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    radio frequency connector used for coaxial cable. It is designed to maintain the same characteristic impedance of the cable, with 50 ohm and 75 ohm types being...
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    10BASE5 (redirect from Yellow cable)
    uses a thick and stiff coaxial cable up to 500 meters (1,600 ft) in length. Up to 100 stations can be connected to the cable using vampire taps and share...
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    initially carrying 36 telephone channels. In the 1960s, transoceanic cables were coaxial cables that transmitted frequency-multiplexed voiceband signals. A high-voltage...
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    connectors are semi-precision coaxial RF connectors developed in the 1960s as a minimal connector interface for coaxial cable with a screw-type coupling...
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  • signals in coaxial cables again using transmitter and receiver modules, and the cable modem termination system (CMTS) connects to these coaxial cables. An example...
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    radiate: something that coaxial cable is not generally supposed to do. A leaky feeder communication system consists of a cable run along tunnels which...
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  • copper wire and cable in them, it was possible to replace those big cables with much smaller coaxial cable. The next major use of coax in telecommunications...
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    RF connectors are typically used with coaxial cables and are designed to maintain the shielding that the coaxial design offers. Better models also minimize...
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    Single-cable distribution is a satellite TV technology that enables the delivery of broadcast programming to multiple users over a single coaxial cable, and...
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    Twin-lead (redirect from Twin-lead cable)
    impedance than the other common transmission wiring, coaxial cable (coax). The widely used RG-6 coax has a characteristic impedance of 75 Ω, which requires...
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    Ethernet, thinnet, and thinwire) is a variant of Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable terminated with BNC connectors to build a local area network. During...
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    a coaxial RF connector commonly used for "over the air" terrestrial television, cable television and universally for satellite television and cable modems...
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