Digital transmission using twisted pair cable applications and performance analysis

1. Overview   With the development ofindicators:
information society, Network Technologies(1) attenuation Attenuation (Attenuation) is a
become more complex, and as the cornerstonemeasure of signal loss along the link. Cable
of the network, the keel?? Network cable is evenattenuation and length of relationship, with the
more important. Currently used network, thereincrease in the length of the signal attenuation is
are three main Cable Media: Cable , Coaxial cablealso increased. Attenuation with the "db" for units
And the number of twisted pair cables. This paperthat source the signal transmitter to the receiver
analyzes the largest number of applications of thesignal strength ratio. Since attenuation varies with
twisted cable.frequency, so the application should be measured
Data cable is a pair Integrated wiring The mostwithin the entire frequency attenuation.
commonly used engineering transmission medium.(2) crosstalk Crosstalk, near-end crosstalk and
It consists of two layers with insulation Copperfar-end crosstalk points (FEXT). NEXT loss is a
Wire form. The two insulated copper wiresmeasure of a UTP link from a pair of lines to
twisted together with each other by a certainanother signal on the line coupling. The UTP link,
density, which reduces signal interference level,NEXT is a key performance indicator, is also the
every wire in the transmission of radiation ofmost difficult to accurately measure a target. As
radio waves will be another online radio waves offsignal frequency increases, the measure will
the root. If one or more pairs of twisted pair onincrease the difficulty.
an insulating sleeve has become twisted pairNEXT not imply that the crosstalk produced by
cables. The current twisted pair cable into twothe proximal point value, it simply means that the
categories: non-shielded twisted pair (UTP:measuring point in the proximal to the crosstalk
UnshieldedTwisted Pair) and shielded twisted pairvalue. This value will change with different cable
(STP: Shielded Twisted Pair).lengths, the longer the cable, and its value
LAN using twisted pair cables used bandwidthbecomes smaller. While the transmitter signal will
depends on the quality of wire, length anddecay, on the other line on the crosstalk is
transmission technology. As long as carefullyrelatively smaller.
selected and installed, it can be achieved within a(3) DC resistance DC loop resistance will consume
limited distance of a few million bits per secondpart of the signal, and transform it into heat,
transfer rate and reliable. When the distance iswhich is a pair of wire resistance and the.
short, and the use of appropriate transmissionISO11801 specifications for twisted pair shall not
equipment and transmission protocol, transmissionbe greater than the 19.2 ohm DC resistance.
rate up to 100Mbit / s ~ 155Mbit / s, or evenDifferences between each pair can not be too
gigabit. Shielded twisted-pair cable of outer-foillarge (less than 0.1 ohm), or that poor contact,
package, to reduce the twisted pair transmissionyou must check the connection point.
information generated by the surrounding radiation.(4) characteristic impedance The characteristic
Unshielded twisted pair cables become theimpedance, including resistance and frequency 1 ~
mainstream, mainly because it is cost-effective,100MHz inductive impedance and capacitive
easy to install, and has the independence andimpedance, with the distance between a pair of
flexibility for structured cabling.wires, and electrical properties of the insulator. All
2. Digital cable pair Main performance In ANSI andkinds of cables have different characteristic
EIA/TIA568 standard and application-level physicalimpedance, while the twisted-pair cable is 100
characteristics according to the cable is dividedohms, 120 ohms and 150 ohms are several.
into several categories. LAN applications, the(5) ACR (ACR) In some frequency range, the
current practice mainly five categories, over fiveratio of crosstalk and attenuation performance
and six as a data transmission on twisted pairrelationship is reflected in another important
cable. At present three types of cable is mainlyparameter cable. ACR sometimes signal to noise
used as a voice line.ratio (SNR: Signal-NoiceRatio) said it from the
Three types of cable transmission frequency isworst value of attenuation and NEXT margin
16MHz, for voice transmission and a maximumcalculation. ACR value is greater, indicating a
transmission rate of 10Mbit / s data transmission,stronger anti-interference ability. General system
mainly for 10base-T; five cable routing densityrequires at least greater than 10 dB.
increases, a quality jacket insulating materials,(6) Cable properties Communication channel cable
transmission frequency of 100MHz, for voicequality is by its characterization. SNR is the signal
transmission and data transmission, mainly forinterference, taking into account the
100base-T Ethernet cable; super five and sixcircumstances, a measure of signal strength data.
cables to meet the emerging Gigabit EthernetIf the SNR is too low, will lead to the data signal is
applications, the performance There are noreceived, the receiver can not distinguish between
perfect indicators of the final.data signal and noise signal, eventually causing data
From the perspective of the actual networkerrors. Therefore, in order to limit data errors
application, as the underlying network link, itswithin a certain range, you must define a
electrical performance is very important.minimum to receive the SNR.
Performance analysis on the cable in two ways:On these indicators tested in several different
one is Laboratory Test The method, whichways, the index slightly different requirements.
according to international standards and China'sPerformance index above are required according
relevant performance test on the cable appliedto the physical characteristics of cables, in real
normalized and environmental performancenetwork applications, more people want to know
testing; the other is field-based performancewhat their transfer bandwidth should meet the
testing, completion of construction in the premisesrequirements of what. In the cable analysis, the
cabling system to measure Assessment Afterphysical bandwidth of (0 ~ 100MHz) and data
laying cable routing performance overall.transfer bandwidth (0 ~ 100Mbit / s) are two
Practice we are most concerned about is thetotally different concepts.
characterization of the performance of several