You work for a small city IT department and you are helping

You work for a small city IT department, and you are helping to string network cable for a new building under construction. The cables lead from the various patch panels in the walls and are used by computers; they travel to the server room by way of the empty space above the ceiling tiles, that also contains the air conditioning and heating ducts. What is this cable type called?

A. Coaxial

B. Plenum

C. STP

D. UTP

Solution

B. Plenum

Cable is name for the plenum space used to string the cable from net ports, up on top of the ceiling tiles, to the server space or network closet. Plenum cable must assemble particular standards such as being jacketed in fire retardant plastic or low smoke polyvinyl chlorine