The Evolution of Networking Part 2

When last we talked, the engineers were playing with twisted pair cable, and the result was Category 3. This marked the first time there was a standard for a twisted pair cable that all the manufacturers needed to follow in order to market their cable as “Category 3”...

The Evolution of Networking Part 1

When I started in this industry over 30 years ago (no tin can and string jokes please), there was 1 kind of cable; 4 conductor 24AWG non- twisted. This was called quad cable. There wasn’t a plenum or non-plenum flavor and there were only 2 colors; beige and olive...