Week 4 Blog

This week chapter when into alot of detail covering the different types of cables and storage networking devices that are used connect to networks anywhere from home or work. 2 types of cables that seemed to commonly used in the networking world are optical and copper cables.  Optical cable is a higher end type of cable that uses thin layer of glass that uses light that can transmit multiple pieces of data at the same time without, radio or electromagnetic interference. Copper cable is a twisted -pair copper that used a categorized by classes from CAT 5 to CAT 6a. These types of  cabling are made up of twisted pair can give give ranges of voice and data up to 10 Gbps. Storage Network device uses hardware such as network adapters, network interface cards switches, and router to connect various storage devices and storage arrays  to communicate and process request from the host with optimum speed while communicating with servers and storage devices.