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The Metal: Wired Network Components and Network Hardware Architecture
At 4:11 on a Tuesday afternoon six cranes at the port stop mid-lift. Six fibre links went dark at the same moment. Field technician Yousef Karam has an OTDR, a set of as-built drawings and a ship waiting. Along the way: everything physical in a network, from copper pairs to one point six terabit optics.
Chapters
00:00:00 Opening: six cranes and a dark fibre
00:02:45 Bob Metcalfe and the ether
00:06:54 From thick coax to switched Ethernet
00:11:28 Copper: twisted pairs and the hundred-metre rule
00:16:57 Fibre: single-mode, multimode and the loss budget
00:21:44 Optics: the pluggable…
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