Tag: CCA

Troubleshooting starts at Layer 1 - the Link Layer. So it's important to get this right. You may say "it's just cabling, how hard can it be?". We'll, read along. I've seen way too many people get it wrong and pay for an expert to re-do it, so I thought I'd touch upon this fundamental topic. The goal here should be to get the cabling done right the first time around to avoid countless hours of troubleshooting cabling issues. The last thing you want is to climb up ladders in narrow spaces tracing cables and re-terminating jacks. I'd rather spend the extra 10mins terminating a connector right, than coming back to it later and re-doing everything. The 2 main types of data cables are Solid Core and Stranded. (There are other categorizations like Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a, Cat7/8. Their primary difference is in the number of twists per inch and how much data they can throughput.) Solid Core Each of the 8 cables inside the outer cover...