USB (Universal Serial Bus) • USB (Universal Serial Bus) • Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a royalty-free bus specification developed by leading manufacturers in the PC and telephony industries to support plug-and-play peripheral connections. USB...
...keyboard/ mouse and serial data) over the four twisted pairs within a CATx cable. • The figure below illustrates one of the most common schemes. • The red, green and blue (RGB) components of the analogue video signal are multiplexed with the hor...
...USB (Universal Serial Bus) • Main attraction • USB's main attraction is that it makes adding peripherals to your computer incredibly easy. It enables you to connect peripherals to the outside of the computer so you don't have to open your P...
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Gigabit Ethernet • Gigabit Ethernet • As workstations and servers migrated from ordinary 10-Mbps Ethernetto 100-Mbps speeds, it became clear that even greater speeds were needed. Gigabit Ethernet was developed for an even faster Ethernet stan...
Fast and Giga Ethernet: 100 and 1000-Mbps • Fast and Giga Ethernet: 100 and 1000-Mbps • In computer networking, Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100-Mbps, against t...
Low-profile PCI serial adapters. • Low-profile PCI adapters. • Miniaturization is the rage • Ever notice that newer computers are getting smaller and slimmer? That means regular PCI boards won’t fit into these computers’ low-profile PCI slots....
...digital output connectors • Many new, high-quality Mini Disc, pro-audio, DAT (Digital Audio Tape), CD, DVD, and laser disc players, as well as digital amplifiers, DSS satellite receivers, and computer sound cards, are manufactured with digital op...
...in the early 1970s, Ethernet has evolved into the most widely implemented physical and Data link layer protocoltoday and, in 1978, the International Standards Organisation (ISO) created a universal standard for exchanging information between an...
10 Gigabit Ethernet • 10-Gigabit Ethernet • From LAN to WAN to MAN • 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GBE), ratified in June 2002, is a logical extension of previous Ethernet versions. 10-GBE was designed to make the transition from LANs to Wide Area N...