Supporting Cabling and Physical Installations
Goals
- Summarize Ethernet standards
- Summarize copper cabling and connector types
- Describe physical installation factors for rack-based installations in server rooms and datacenters
- Deploy and troubleshoot Ethernet cabling
Ethernet
- Network Data Transmission
- Ethernet Standards
- Media Access Control and Collision Domains
- 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet Standards
- Gigabit Ethernet Standards
- Fiber Ethernet Standards
Copper Cables and Connectors
- Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP)
- Shielded Twisted Pair (STP)
- Cat Standards
- Copper Cabling Connectors
- Plenum and Riser-Rated Cable
- Coaxial & Twinaxial Cabling
Wiring Implementation
- Structured Cabling System
- T568A and T568B Termination Standards
- Patch Panels
- Structured Cable Installation
- Terminating Tools and Techniques
Fiber Optic Cables and Connectors
- Fiber Optic Cable Considerations
- Fiber Optic Cable Components
- Single Mode Fiber and Multimode Fiber
- Fiber Optic Connector Types
- Fiber Optic Installation
- Fiber Distribution Panels
- Wavelength Division Multiplexing
Physical Installation Factors
- Rack Systems
- Networking Humidity and Temperature
- Networking Power Management
- Networking Fire Suppression