A thin-diameter wire (22 to 26 gauge) commonly used for telephone and network cabling. The wires are twisted around each other to minimize interference from other twisted pairs in the cable. Alexander ...

Transmitting video signals over long distances can be tricky. Cheap co-ax cables won’t do the job. You either need amplifiers along the path, or need to use expensive, high quality shielded co-ax ...

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Moving vast amounts of data between two points quickly, reliably and economically is what many designers are facing regularly when building their systems. When it comes to using copper cables as a ...

Back in 1881 when Alexander Graham Bell invented twisted pair cables he could never have imagined they would still be in use today and that we owe so much of our high speed IT cables to his invention.

Twisted pair are really only helpful for differential amplifiers. The noise induced in 1 line is cancelled by the noise induced in the other. It is not going to hurt anything - but don't expect a ...

Hello all,<P>My question concerns 10BaseT network cables. I have seen the cat 5 cables pretty much standard in all networks. These of course have the RJ45 connectors with all 8 pins being filled with ...

A low-voltage continuity tester, the CableEye M4 from Cami Research troubleshoots twisted-pair relationships in cables as short as 6 feet. This functionality, which is also available as an option on ...