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Computer

Science
Guided Media
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Contents of this Presentation
What is Guided media?

Twisted Pair Cable

Types of Twisted Pair Cable

Coaxial Cable

Typed of Coaxial Cable

Optical Fibers

Types of Fiber Optic Cable

Guided Media Compared


What is Guided
Media?
• One of the two categories of the communication
media is Guided Media.
• The Guided Media included Cables
• Ex. Twisted Pair Cable, Coaxial Cable, Optical
Fiber
Twisted Pair Cable
• The most common form of writing in data communication. Has 2 indentical wires
wrapped in double helix.
• Problems arise due to differences in electrical characteristics between the pair
(Resistance, length, Capacitance)
• All different types of Twisted Pair cable has 2 things in common. The wires come in
pairs and they are twisted around each other
• The twisting wires reduces Crosstalk – bleeding of signal from one wire to
another that corrupts signal and causes network errors.
• Also protects is from other forms of signal interference
Twisted Pair cable
Advantages Disadvantages
• Simple, easy to install and • High attenuation ( gradual loss of
maintain intensity), incapable of carrying
• Physically flexible signal over long distances w/o the
• Low weight use of repeater
• Very Inexpensive • Low bandwidth – unsuitable for
broadband applications
• Supports maximum data rate
1Mbps-without conditioning
10Mbps- with conditioning
Twisted Pair Cable-Types
Unshielded Twisted Pair Cable (UTP) –
UTP cabling is used for variety of electronic communications
It is available in 8 categories.
It can have max segment length of 100m.
UTP-Types
Type Description

CAT1 Voice grade communications only. No data transmission

CAT2 Upto 4Mhz bandwidth and 4 Mbps data rate

CAT3 Upto 16Mhz bandwidth and 10 Mbps data rate

CAT4 Upto 20Mhz bandwidth and 16 Mbps data rate

CAT5 Upto 100Mhz bandwidth and 1000 Mbps data rate

CAT6 Upto 250Mhz bandwidth and 10000 Mbps data rate

CAT7 Upto 600Mhz bandwidth and 10 Gbps data rate

CAT8 Upto 2Ghz bandwidth and 40 Gbps data rate


Twisted Pair Cable-Types
Shielded Twisted Pair Cable (STP) –
• Comes along with shielding of the individual pairs of wires Can have maximum
segment length of 100m.
• The advantage of STP over UTP is it gives greater protection from external
interference and crosstalk due to shielding
• But heavier and Costlier than UTP
• Requires proper grounding at both ends
COAXIAL CABLE
 This type of cable consists of a solid wire core surrounded by
wire shield,each seperated by some kind of plastic insulation
 The coaxial cable has high electrical properties
 It is widly used for television signals.
 It provides acheapp means of transporting multi-channel
television signals.

Types of coaxial cable


1. Thicknet: This form of coaxial cable is thicker than thinnet and it can be upto 500 meters
long.
2. Thinnet: It canhave maximum segment length of 185 meters.
Advantages
Disadvantages
The data transmission characteristics
of coaxial cables are considerably
Coaxial cables can only send signals a certain
distance, depending on the cable's quality and
better than those of twisted pair cable. type.

The coaxial cables can be used for If there is a failure in one coaxial cable, the
broadband transmission i.e., several entire network will be down.
channels can be transmitted
simultaneously.

The coaxial cables can be used as the Coaxial cables are more expensive than other
basis for a shared cable network. types of cables, such as twisted-pair wires,
OPTICAL FIBRES
These consists of thin strands of glass or glass like material which are so constructed that they
carry light from a source at one end of the fibre to a detector at the other end.

The light sources used are either light emitting diodes (LEDs) or laser diodes (LDs).

Optical fibres offer a very high bandwidth and this makes it capable of multichannel
communication.

Fibre Optic cable can be of two types:


i) Single node fibre optic cable: It supports a segment length of up
to 5km and bandwidth of up to 10Gbps
ii) Multinode fibre optic cable: It has a segment length of 1km
and bandwidth of 100Gbps
Advantages
Disadvantages
It is immune to electrical and magnetic It is difficult to install and maintain since
interference. they are quite fragile.

It is highly suitable for harsh industrial It is most expensive of all cables.


environments.
Connecting two fibres together or even
It can be used for broadband transmission connecting the light source with the cable
where several channels can be handled in is a difficult
parallel. process. Hence connection loss is a
common problem
—Guided Media Compared—

Type Sub Type Max. Bandwidth Installation Cost Interference


Segment Supported
Length
Twisted UTP 100m 40 Gbps Easy Cheapest High
Pair Cable STP 100m 500 Mbps Moderate Moderate Moderate

Coaxial Thinnet 185m 10 Mbps Easy Cheap Moderate


Cable Thicknet 500m 10 Mbps Hard Moderate Low

Fiber Optics Single mode Upto 5 km 10 Gbps Very Hard Expensive None
Cable Multimode Upto 1km 100 Gbps Very Hard Expensive None
Thank you

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