Types of Copper Cabling

This afternoon, I made some progress in my new online course over at the Cisco Networking Academy.

Thus far, I am at section 1.3 Copper Cabling in the "Network Addressing and Basic Troubleshooting" online course.

Copper cabling consists of the following:

• shielded twisted pair (STP) cable
• unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable
• coaxial cable

When you think of cables used in computer networking, you are probably thinking of STP and UTP cables. These two cables are commonly referred to as Ethernet cable.

Coaxial cable is the kind of cable that is typically used for cable television.

Fiber-optic cable consists of a strand of glass encased in wire, so it will be covered in a later section.

Progress is slow.

The topic might be beaten to death, yet it is a good idea to review the different cable types used in networking.

Believe it or not, technology does change when it comes to networking cables.

As always, I am taking copious notes.

Yes, I am familiar with the saying "If everything is important, then nothing is important".

I am probably permanently scarred from both CompTIA A+ certification exams where anything and everything can be a test question.

Based on my experiences with two previous online courses, Cisco isn't much different from CompTIA.

Back to studying...