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Noise- means any unwanted sound

Headroom- In digital and analog audio, headroom refers to the amount by which the
signal-handling capabilities of an audio system exceed a designated level known as
Permitted Maximum Level (PML)
ANSI- The American National Standards Institute is a private non-profit organization that
oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services,
processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.
NFPA- The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a United States trade
association, albeit with some international members, that creates and maintains private,
copyrighted, standards and codes for usage and adoption by local governments. This
includes publications from model building codes to the many on equipment utilized by
firefighters while engaging in hazardous material (hazmat) response, rescue response, and
some firefighting
FCC- The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the
United States government, created by Congressional statute (see 47 U.S.C. 151 and 47
U.S.C. 154) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite,
and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories
NIST- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), known between 1901
and 1988 as the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), is a measurement standards
laboratory, also known as a National Metrological Institute (NMI), which is a nonregulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. The institute's official
mission is to
OSHA- The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is an
agency of the United States Department of Labor. Congress established the agency under
the Occupational Safety and Health Act, which President Richard M. Nixon signed into
law on December 29, 1970.
EQUIPMENT ROOM- An equipment room is a room or space within a building for the
storage or installation of mechanical or electrical/electronic devices.
An equipment room can house telecommunication installations that serves the occupants
of the building or multiple buildings in a campus environment. An equipment room is
considered distinct from a telecommunications room because it is considered to be a
building or campus serving (as opposed to floor serving) facility and because of the
nature or complexity of the equipment that it contains.
TOPOLOGY- the study of geometric properties and spatial relations unaffected by the
continuous change of shape or size of figures.
APPLICATION the action of putting something into operation.
UNSHEILDED TWISTED PAIR- Most common type of transmission media for voice
and data communications, connecting telephone company subscribers to the telephone
central office (exchange) and computers in a local area network (LAN) such as Ethernet
and Token Ring. It consists of two 19 to 26 American wire gauge (AWG) thickness
copper wires encased in color-coded plastic insulation, twisted around each other to
minimize electromagnetic and radio-frequency interference induced from one wire to the
other. TP wires are categorized according to their thickness (thicker the better) such as
CAT-3 for voice, CAT-4 for voice and 10-base-T, and CAT-5 for 100-base-T. Also called

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twisted pair (TP). See also shielded twisted pair.Read more:

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SHIELDED TWISTED PAIR Transmission media used often where the cable must pass
near sources of electromagnetic interference (noise), such as high-voltage power lines,
motors, television, transformers, x-ray machines. It consists of several pairs of unshielded
twisted wire enclosed in an outer shield of metal or metal-braid. This shield conducts
ambient noise safely to the ground, and thus provides high quality signal transmission.
See also coaxial cable.Read more:
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FIBER OPTIC CABLE-DARK FIBER An optical fiber cable is a cable containing one or
more optical fibers that are used to carry light. 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. Different types of cable are used for
different applications, for example long distance telecommunication, or providing a highspeed data connection between different parts of a building
COAXAL CABLE- Coaxial cable, or coax (pronounced 'ko.ks), is a type of cable that
has an inner conductor surrounded by a tubular insulating layer, surrounded by a tubular
conducting shield. Many coaxial cables also have an insulating outer sheath or jacket
PLENUM- Plenum may refer to: Plenum chamber, a chamber intended to contain air,
gas, or liquid at positive pressure
RISER- a type of communications cable used to connect multiple floors in a building
RIPCORD-CORE an optical cable, a parallel cord of strong yarn that is situated under the
jacket(s) of the cable for jacket removal
ATTENUATION- In physics, attenuation (in some contexts also called extinction) is the
gradual loss in intensity of any kind of flux through a medium. For instance, sunlight is
attenuated by dark glasses, X-rays are attenuated by lead, and light and sound are
attenuated by water