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A cable is two or more wires or ropes running side by side and bonded, twisted or braided together to form a single assembly. In mechanics, cables are used for lifting and hauling and in electricity they are used to carry electrical currents.
Electrical cables can be classified into Coaxial cables, Multicore cables that consists of more than one wire and is covered by cable jacket, Ribbon cables, Shielded cables, Single cable (from time to time this name is used for wire) and Twisted pair of cables.
· Heavy-lift cable
· Elevator cable
An optical fiber cable is a cable containing one or more optical fibers. The optical fiber elements are typically individually coated with plastic layers and contained in a protective tube suitable for the environment where the cable will be deployed.
A straight-through cable is the same at both ends. The send and receive wires are not crossed. You should use a straight-through cable when connecting dissimilar devices. Examples include connecting PCs to switches or hubs or a router to a switch or a hub.
A crossover cable is a cable that has the send and receives wires crossed at one of the ends. You should use a crossover cable when connecting similar devices, such as connecting a router to a router, a switch to a switch or hub, a hub to a hub, or a PC to a PC.
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