Chapter 6: Installing a Physical Network pg 170 - End

Cable Testing
- need a midrange tester with TDR
- include the patch cables

Problems in the Telecommunications Room
- keep your diagnostics process documented and organized
- all racks should run off of an interruptible power supply
- all rooms should have temperature monitors
- all rooms should have environmental monitors

Things To Remember From Chapter:

1. Coax cable should not be used in structured cabling networks.
2. Bonding, or link aggregation, is the process of using multiple NICs as a single connection, thus increasing speed.
3. The CAT 5e rating requires four pairs of wires.
4. The patch panel organizes and protects the horizontal cabling in the telecommunications room. 
5. Patch cables are used to connect the hub to the patch panel and the PCs to the outlet boxes.
6. 10BaseT and 100BaseT use UTP cabling in a star topology. 10Base2 is an older, dying technology that doesn't use UTP in a star. Fiber-optic networking uses a star topology, but the name is a dead giveaway hat it doesn't use UTP. 
7. A tone generator and tone probe work together to enable you to pick a single cable out of a stack of cables.