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Installation of twisted pair cabling

We have now started to replace the old BNC network cables by twisted pair cables. One of the major problems with BNC has been that one malfunctioning station could break the whole network. Twisted pair cabling improves this by connecting all stations first to a so-called `HUB' in a star topology.

We also need twisted-pair cables for faster networks like fast-Ethernet.



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