FAQ’s

Frequent Questions and Answers about Security Camera, Cabling, Alarms, Access control, Netword in Miami.

1.- What is cable in networking?

Different types of network cables, such as coaxial cable, optical fiber cable, and twisted pair cables, are used depending on the network’s physical layer, topology, and size. The devices can be separated by a few meters (e.g. via Ethernet) or nearly unlimited distances (e.g. via the interconnections of the Internet).

2.- What is a structured cabling system?

Structured cabling is building or campus telecommunications cabling infrastructure that consists of a number of standardized smaller elements (hence structured) called subsystems.

3.- Which Ethernet cable to buy?

If you have a modern router and modern Ethernet-enabled devices, you can get faster speeds — up to 10 Gb/s from 1 Gb/s — by using Cat-6 or Cat-6a cables instead of Cat-5 or Cat-5e cables. The rest of your hardware has to support it, but you won’t get those above 1 Gb/s speeds unless you have good enough cables.

4.- What is a data cable?

A data cable is any media that allows baseband transmissions (binary 1,0s) from a transmitter to a receiver. Examples Are: Networking Media. Ethernet Cables (Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a) … Coaxial cable is sometimes used as a baseband digital data cable, such as in serial digital interface and thicknet and thinnet.

5.- Best Type of cables and connectors used in Security Camera Installation

The best connectors to use installing HD Analog cameras are the Belden. You will need to buy an special tool too to connect it, but they are stand in your installation forever. About cables always ask the installer, because some cables can suffer more than other with weather inclemences.