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Cable engineering for local area networks

B J Elliott, Brand-Rex Ltd, UK

Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials No. 5

This book provides a complete guide to the design, procurement, installation and testing procedures for local area networks (LANs) using both copper and optical fibre cable technology. International, European and American LAN and premises cabling standards are explained and compared including the latest Category 5, Category 6 and Category 7 proposals. The latest standards in testing, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) compliance and fire safety are also covered in detail.

By describing the theory as well as the practical issues involved, this book is an unrivalled source of information for those who need to understand, at a time of very rapid change, the complexities of today's office-based LANs.

British courses such as City and Guilds course 3466, Copper and Optical Communications
C & G courses in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering 2720, 2760 and 3478
NVQ and SNVQ courses on copper and fibre communications technology, levels one to five
Future qualifications to be developed by the European Institute of Telecommunications Engineering and the European Intelligent buildings group
American Certified Electronics Technician, Certified Fiber Optics Installer, Certified Network Systems Technician and Telecommunications Electronics Technician courses
BICSI courses such as RCDD where the book's coverage of European and international standards is very useful
BTEC and BSc courses on electronic and communications engineering

In addition it is a valuable resource for IT managers, consultants, cable installation engineers and system designers who need to understand the technology and physics behind the subject and the huge range of standards that apply to cable engineering

ISBN 1 85573 488 5
ISBN-13: 978 1 85573 488 3
September 2000
320 pages  234 x 156mm  hardback  
£115.00 / US$195.00 / €140.00

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About the author

Barry Elliott is a Chartered Electrical Engineer with 20 years' experience in cable engineering and communications system design. He has worked for the Civil Aviation Authority and Ferranti Computer Systems. He is a BICSI Registered Communications Distribution Designer and holds an MBA from Henley Management College. He is currently Technical Marketing Manager at Brand-Rex Ltd.

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Contents

Introduction

Basic applied mathematics
 - Working with indices
 - Prefixes to denote size
 - Logarithms
 - Decibels
 - Sine waves and phase
 - Complex numbers
 - Basic physics - electrical

Basic physics - electrical
 - SI system and fundamental units
 - Atoms, elements and compounds
 - Conductors, semi-conductors and insulators
 - Electricity and circuits

Basic physics – optical
 - The electromagnetic spectrum
 - Reflection and refraction

Communications theory
 - Analogue and digital channels
 - Binary, octal and hexadecimal
 - Bandwidth and data rate
 - Megabits and megahertz are not the same!
 - Noise
 - The time domain and frequency domain
 - Synchronous and asynchronous transmission
 - Error correcting codes
 - Digital subscriber lines

Local area networking and associated cabling
 - Introduction
 - The rise of structured cabling and local area networks
 - LAN architecture and the open systems interconnection model
 - Types of local area network
 - Optical networks and channels
 - Video applications over structured cabling

Copper cable technology – cable
 - Introduction
 - American wire gauge
 - Solid and stranded conductors
 - Insulation material
 - Fire rating of cables
 - Screening or shielding of cables
 - Multicore cables
 - Twisted pair cables
 - Categories and classes of cable
 - External cable
 - Quads
 - Coaxial cable 'coax'

Copper cable technology – components
 - Introduction
 - Connectors
 - Patch panels
 - Telecommunications outlets
 - Consolidation points
 - Other devices

Copper cable technology – transmission characteristics
 - Introduction
 - The fundamental units of measurement
 - The cable as a transmission line
 - Crosstalk and power sum measurements
 - Nominal velocity of propagation
 - Return loss
 - TOC and common mode and differential mode transmission
 - Electromagnetic emissions and immunity of cable
 - Copper cable technology – testingIntroduction
 - Introduction
 - Time and frequency domain measurements
 - Test parameters
 - Testing standards
 - Optical cable technology – cableIntroduction
 - Introduction
 - Tight buffered optical cable
 - Loose tube optical cable
 - Armouring styles
 - Special optical cables
 - Blown fibre
 - Optical cable technology – componentsIntroduction
 - Introduction
 - Optical connectors
 - Other optical termination equipment
 - Optical splices
 - Wavelength division multiplexors and other components
 - Optical cable technology – testingIntroduction
 - Introduction
 - Designing the optical link to work
 - Testing the optical link
 - Cable system design and international standardsWho writes the standards?
 - Who writes the standards?
 - Cable system design
 - Component standards
 - Fire performance standards
 - EMC/EMI standards
 - Test standards
 - Earth, grounding and bonding
 - Cable containment and administration
 - Local area network standards
 - Building automation standards
 - References

Copper cable technology - testing
 - Introduction
 - Time and frequency domain measurements
 - Test parameters
 - Testing standards

Optical cable technology — optical fibre
 - Introduction
 - Why use optical fibre?
 - Fibre manufacture
 - Multimode and singlemode, step index and graded index
 - Optical fibres for datacommunications and telecommunications
 - Wavelengdhs of operation
 - Bandwidth and dispersion of optical fibre
 - Attenuation
 - Singlemode fibre
 - Plastic optical fibre

Optical cable technology — cable
 - Introduction
 - Tight buffered optical fibre
 - Loose tube optical cable
 - Armouring styles
 - Special optical cables
 - Blown fibre

Optical cable technology — components
 - Introduction
 - Optical connectors
 - Other optical termination equipment
 - Optical splices
 - Wavelength division multiplexors and other
 - components

Optical cable technology — testing
 - Introduction
 - Designing the optical link to work
 - Testing the optical link

Cable system design and international standards
 - Who writes the standards?
 - Cable system design
 - Component standards
 - Fire performance standards
 - EMWEMI standards (including the ‘screened versus unscreened’ debate)
 - Test standards
 - Earth, grounding and bonding
 - Cable containment and administration
 - Local area network standards

Appendix I List of some relevant standards

Appendix II Contact addresses for standards organisations and other interested bodies