Although UTP cable was designed for use with phone and data networks, its popularity in the CCTV world is growing rapidly. UTP is often chosen over coax and fiber because of its ease of installation, ...

With Ethernet turning 50 this year, Ars is resurfacing this feature on the development and evolution of Ethernet that was originally published in 2011. Although watching TV shows from the 1970s ...

Although watching TV shows from the 1970s suggests otherwise, the era wasn't completely devoid of all things resembling modern communication systems. Sure, the 50 Kbps modems that the ARPANET ran on ...

Following are the categories for telephone and Ethernet cables, which are abbreviated "Cat." For HDMI video cables, see HDMI cable types. Cat1 and Cat2 are unofficial voice grade standards, while the ...

Cable and connector faults arerelatively common in LANs (local-area networks). You can use the circuitin Figure 1 to test straight- or cross-link10BaseT, 100BaseT, or gigabit ...

For a small business network today, unless you plan to go with a Wi-Fi solution, your only obvious choice will be Ethernet. Thirty years ago, there were other local area network (LAN) solutions, ...

Why assemble your own ethernet cables? Many online stores sell them for only a couple of dollars each. But certain situations call for using your own custom-wired cables. Maybe you need enough of them ...

Although watching TV shows from the 1970s suggests otherwise, the era wasn’t completely devoid of all things resembling modern communication systems. Sure, the 50Kbps modems that the ARPANET ran on ...