...blower requires a solid or partially vented front door with adequate space — usually at least 4 inches — between the front of your equipment and the cabinet door for air movement. • Keep in mind • When using fans to cool a cabinet, keep in min...

...are designed to guide cables and hold them precisely at the same level as mounted equipment. You can also add inexpensive hook-and-loop cable ties to hold and bundle cable securely. • High-density cable management. • For high-density applications,...

...that match your cables and equipment, the correct pinning, and the number of switch positions you need. • Remember that an ABC switch has just two positions, not three.) You can mix several types of switches in the same chassis. • Step 2: • ...

Interface-powered converters. • Interface-powered converters • Plug directly into RS-232 devices • Interface-powered converters plug directly into RS-232 devices, eliminating the need for external power supplies. These converters draw their po...

...such as backbone cables or for connections that will be changed frequently, like those in wiring closets. Ceramic ferrules are more precisely molded and fit closer to the fibre, which gives the fibre optic cables a lower optical loss. • Use c...

Fibre Channel Technology • Fibre Channel Technology • What is Fibre Channel? • Fibre Channel is a set of communication standards designed to provide high-speed data transfer over a duplex, serial interface. It’s an open standard that supports ...

Fast and Giga Ethernet: 100 and 1000-Mbps • Fast and Giga Ethernet: 100 and 1000-Mbps • In computer networking, Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100-Mbps, against t...