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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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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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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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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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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Copper conductor (redirect from Copper cable)
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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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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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 This was largely superseded by 10BASE2, which used a thinner and more flexible cable that was both cheaper...
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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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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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10BASE2 (redirect from 10Base2 thinnet coaxial cable)
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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Transmission medium (section Coaxial cable)
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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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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Alternating current (section Coaxial cables)
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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Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) is an international standards consortium that publishes specifications for networking over coaxial cable. The technology...
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Transmission line (redirect from Coaxial transmission line)
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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Skin effect (section Coaxial cable)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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RG-6 (category Cable television technology)
RG-6/U is a common type of coaxial cable used in a wide variety of residential and commercial applications. An RG-6/U coaxial cable has a characteristic impedance...
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Leaky feeder (redirect from Leaky coaxial cable)
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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RF connector (redirect from Coaxial connectors)
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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Physical media (section Coaxial cables)
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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