The Benefits of Twisted Pair Cable
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The Benefits of Twisted Pair Cable
Gwendolyn Harris
Strayer University
CIS 175/ Week 4 Assignment 1
Introduction
You are a recently hired consultant for a NCF, the Networking Consulting Firm, and your first consulting assignment is at Ocper, Inc. Upon arriving at the client, you learn from the president that there is no one dedicated to information technology or networking on the staff and there are 20 Windows peer-to-peer client computers all connected via coax cabling. The president also indicates that the company plans to double in size over the next two years, but she is weary of drastically changing the computing environment.
Body
1. Describe what changes you would suggest in terms of the current network type / structure and how you would lay out the benefits of the changes you recommend.
I would advise the president to change the current network type to twisted pair cable because by having coaxial cable, it carry a high frequency signals along a single center conductor where as for twisted pair cable twisting two insulated wires together improves their electrical characteristics at lower voice frequencies and prevents signals from crossing into adjacent wires. It also allows the signal to travel longer distances.
2. Describe why you would suggest connecting all current and new client computers using twisted pair cable instead of staying with the current coax wiring structure.
Twisting two insulated wires together improves their electrical characteristics at lower voice frequencies and prevents signals from crossing into adjacent wires. It also allows the signal to travel longer distances. Coaxial cables carry high-frequency signals along a single-center conductor surrounded by a foil or braided copper shield. Coaxial cable has less loss than twisted pair, and the shield protects the signal from interference (Dean, 2010). There are two type of twisted pair cable, shield and unshielded.
Unshielded twisted pair, or UTP, is...
Gwendolyn Harris
Strayer University
CIS 175/ Week 4 Assignment 1
Introduction
You are a recently hired consultant for a NCF, the Networking Consulting Firm, and your first consulting assignment is at Ocper, Inc. Upon arriving at the client, you learn from the president that there is no one dedicated to information technology or networking on the staff and there are 20 Windows peer-to-peer client computers all connected via coax cabling. The president also indicates that the company plans to double in size over the next two years, but she is weary of drastically changing the computing environment.
Body
1. Describe what changes you would suggest in terms of the current network type / structure and how you would lay out the benefits of the changes you recommend.
I would advise the president to change the current network type to twisted pair cable because by having coaxial cable, it carry a high frequency signals along a single center conductor where as for twisted pair cable twisting two insulated wires together improves their electrical characteristics at lower voice frequencies and prevents signals from crossing into adjacent wires. It also allows the signal to travel longer distances.
2. Describe why you would suggest connecting all current and new client computers using twisted pair cable instead of staying with the current coax wiring structure.
Twisting two insulated wires together improves their electrical characteristics at lower voice frequencies and prevents signals from crossing into adjacent wires. It also allows the signal to travel longer distances. Coaxial cables carry high-frequency signals along a single-center conductor surrounded by a foil or braided copper shield. Coaxial cable has less loss than twisted pair, and the shield protects the signal from interference (Dean, 2010). There are two type of twisted pair cable, shield and unshielded.
Unshielded twisted pair, or UTP, is...