Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring [Hardcover]

David Groth (Author), Jim McBee (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 2000 | Series: Complete Guide

Cabling is crucial to every network (except for wireless networks). This guide provides information on all types of cable.

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From the Author

Is there such a thing as standards for networking cabling? What is the difference between Category 5 and 5e cabling? Under what circumstances should optical fiber cabling be used? What does crosstalk have to do with networking? What is an SC connector?

If you are an Information Technology professional, these questions may be plaguing you. For most of us, we take our network cabling for granted. We plug in a computer to the wall plate and connect the corresponding outlet on the patch panel to a hub and, boom, instant network. But how did we arrive at this point? How can we design and install a cabling system to support our network (and phones!) that achieves the level of reliability and flexibility that our electrical wiring already has. (You don’t upgrade your electrical wiring every time you want to add a new light, do you?)

We have designed and written this book for Information Technology professionals and those starting out with data and voice cabling. The point of this book is to help you unravel the mysteries of your existing cabling system, choose the right cabling standard, properly design a new cabling system, understand cable testing, and pick the right cable for your desired networking technologies.

We combined our own experiences working in the IT field with the experiences of cable installers, designers, and network professionals from all over the world in order to give you the facts on networking cabling. (And Jim got to realize his lifelong dream of using the word “critter” in a technical book.)

- David Groth - Jim McBee

From the Back Cover

The physical linkages responsible for carrying a company's data continue to be the most neglected components of the typical network—to the extent that nearly 70% of all network-related problems result from poor cabling.

In this third edition of a widely acclaimed resource, three networking experts share their extensive experience, teaching you the cabling skills you need to build a reliable, efficient, and cost-effective network cabling infrastructure. As you master these techniques, you'll learn to avoid common pitfalls and troubleshoot problems as quickly as they arise. Coverage includes:

• Choosing the right cables and components for your network architecture and topology
• Avoiding unnecessary and unexpected costs
• Understanding the current limitations of data communications and network cabling
• Understanding how laws and building codes constrain cabling
• Understanding the function and importance of universal cabling standards
• Determining when you have a cabling-related network problem
• Assembling a complete cabling toolkit
• Integrating voice and data on the same cable system
• Setting up an infrastructure in which desktops, printers, copiers, and other nodes share cabling
• Understanding issues of bandwidth, impedance, resistance, attenuation, crosstalk, capacitance, propagation, delay, and delay skew
• Working effectively with USB and Firewire
• Knowing when to discard legacy cabling and begin anew
• Documenting your cabling
• Creating an RFP and selecting a vendor

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 821 pages
• Publisher: Sybex Inc; 1st edition (May 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782126456
• ISBN-13: 978-0782126457
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.8 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #410,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the absolute bible on cabling for "Any " installer., October 23, 2000

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DONOVAN wayward dix "donvineland" (VINELAND ,NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring (Hardcover)

This is without any doubts the best book on the market about cabling or telecommunications wiring.If you are a would-be installer,this book will give all the basics required for a well rounded view on equipment and cable installation.you will learn how to read the markings on the cable;how cable is rated(flamability,transmission properties,cable construction)and the standards of installation(national electric code,Eia/Tia-568);how to choose the right cables,connectors, and equipment to fit the application(end result).Then, there is a 32 page insert of colour photographs illustrating how to do the actual installations.This book is a general guide,thereby,here are some recommendations for anyone wanting to go into technical details:(1)Communications Cabling(2)Optical fiber installation by E.Pearson,(3)Basic Electricity by -Nooger/Neville,Inc(vol 1-2)

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and useful! Best book I've purchased this year!, August 10, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring (Hardcover)

This has been the most useful book I have read all year! This is my best book purchase of the year! I'm a system administrator and I have been given the task of planning the move of my company's local area network to a new location. I had seen cabling installed before and thought I knew something about it. I contacted a few contractors and they threw at me an mess of technical terms about cabling. One of them recommended this book. In the first two chapters, I learned most everything I needed to propertly plan my cabling system; the other chapters gave me many ideas. This book immediately helped to save me tens of thousands of dollars and gave me the information necessary to plan a proper cabling infrastructure. I can't say enough good things about it!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Cabling: The complete guide to network wiring, June 19, 2000

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Michael (New York, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cabling: The Complete Guide to Network Wiring (Hardcover)

As A consultant/designer for telecommunications infrastructure I am always on the lookout for the latest and greatest book with reference to network cabling. Cabling: The complete guide to network wiring, will be a great addition to my library of reference books.