A short piece of coaxial cable that connects the cable TV network to your house The drop cable runs between your house and the branch on your street's utility poles (or utility conduit, if your street has buried utility lines) In Fairfax County, most drop cable is actually two cables that run side-by-side
Cable that provides access to and from a network system Possibly the cable from a transceiver or an individual line in a multi-drop situation Also the cable from a wall-mounted faceplate or jack to a user's system
The cable which allows connection and access to and from the trunk cables of a network such as the cables that connect individual PCs to the bus on a bus LAN In a CATV system, the transmission cable from the distribution cable to a dwelling
A cable that connects a network device such as a computer to a physical medium such as an Ethernet network Drop cable is also called transceiver cable because it runs from the network node to a transceiver (a transmit/receiver) attached to the trunk cable Compare with AUI cable