BOOK REVIEW IN COMMUNICATIONS Electronic Communications System By Wayne Tomasi

CHAPTER 12 METALLIC CABLE TRANSMISSION MEDIA

# DEFINITIONS TERMS

Provides a conduit in which electromagnetic signals Guided Transmission

1)
are contained. Media

Unguided Transmission
2) Emitted then radiated through air or a vacuum.
Media

Used to propagate electromagnetic signals between Cable Transmission

3)
two locations in a communications system. Medium

Most common means of interconnecting devices in Cable Transmission

4)
local area networks. Systems

Metallic conductor system used to transfer electrical

5) energy from one point to another using electrical Transmission line
current flow.

longitudinal and
6) Two basic kinds of waves.
transverse

7) The rate at which the periodic wave repeats. Frequency

Currents that flow in opposite directions in a

8) Metallic circuit currents
balanced wire pair.

9) Currents that flow in the same direction. Longitudinal currents

10) Cancellation of common mode signals. Common mode rejection

One wire is at the ground potential, whereas the Single-ended or

11)
other is at signal potential. unbalanced

A circuit device used to connect a balanced

12) transmission line to an unbalanced load. balun

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Most common metallic cables used to interconnect Parallel-conductor

14) data communications systems and computer transmission lines and
networks. coaxial transmission lines.

Formed by twisting two insulated conductors around

15) Twisted-pair
each other.

Unshielded twisted pair

16) Types of twisted pair.
and Shielded twisted pair

Coupling that takes place when a transmitted signal

17) is coupled into the received signal at the same end Near-end crosstalk
of the cable.

Pair 1: blue/white stripe

and blue
Pair 2: orange/white
Standard color code specified by the EIA for CAT-5 stripe and orange
18)
cable. Pair 3: green/white strip[e
and green
Pair 4: brown/white stripe
and brown

19) Woven into a mesh. Braid

Name given to the area between the ceiling and the

root in a single-story building or between the ceiling
20) Plenum
and the floor of the next higher level in a multi-story
building.

Used for high data transmission rates to reduce losses

21) Coaxial
and isolate transmission path.

Refers to the woven stranded mesh that surrounds

22) Shielding
some types of coaxial cables.

One layer of foil insulation and one layer of braided

23) shielding. Dual shielded

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Rigid air-filled; solid

24) Types of coaxial cables.
flexible

26) Uniformly distributed throughout the length of the line. Distributed parameters

27) Transmission characteristics of a transmission line. Secondary constants

28) Impedance seen looking into an infinitely long line. Surge impedance

Expressed the attenuation and the phase shift per

29) Propagation constants
unit length of a transmission line.

Ratio of the actual velocity of propagation of an

30) electromagnetic wave through a given medium to Velocity factor.
the velocity of propagation through a vacuum.

31) Relative permittivity of a material. Dielectric constant

Conductor loss, radiation

loss, dielectric heating
32) Several ways in which signal power is lost.
loss, coupling loss and
corona

Voltage that propagates from the source toward the

33) Incident voltage
load.

Voltage that propagates that propagates from the

34) Reflected voltage
load toward the source.

35) Transmission line with no reflected power. Flat or non resonant line

Vector quantity that represents the ratio of reflected

36) voltage to incident voltage or reflected current to Reflection coefficient
incident current.

37) Incident power is absorbed by the load. Matched line

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Unmatched or
38) Incident power returned (reflected) to the source.
mismatched line

39) Two travelling waves set up an interference pattern. Standing wave

Ratio of the maximum voltage to the minimum

40) voltage or the maximum current to the minimum Standing-wave ratio
current of a standing wave on a transmission line.

Used to matched transmission lines to purely resistive

Quarter-wavelength
41) loads whose resistance is not equal to the
transformers
characteristic impedance of the line.

A technique that can be used to locate an Time domain

42)
impairment in a metallic cable reflectometry (TDR)

43) Return signal. Echo

Simply a flat conductor separated from a ground

44) Microstrip
plane by an insulating di-electric material.

Simply a flat conductor sandwiched between two

45) Stripline
ground planes.

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