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Network cabling

Network cabling

- [Teacher] In today's world of networking we more often than not hear everyone talking about wireless networking. Well, very often our servers, even in today's world are still physically connected to our networks by using network cabling. What I'd like to do is just do a quick overview with you here on the two types of network cabling that you may need to be familiar with when connecting your servers to your network. The first would simply be ethernet or twisted pair cable. Now again, quick overview, not going to go into great detail on this. We have different courses on actual cabling If you're going to be a cabling specialist, but as a server administrator it's important that maybe you understand about cabling purchases that may be pushed your way or that you may need to present to somebody. Now, when it comes to ethernet cable, it comes in many different categories. It actually starts down with category one, but I'm…

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