a.What is the attenuation of 350 ft of RG-11 U coaxial cable at 100 MHz? b. A transmitter has an output power of 3 W that is fed to an antenna through an RG58A/U cable 20 ft long. How much power reaches the antenna? c. Two engineers have a disagreement over the selection of transmission line for  connections within a 100m Data Centre on a project that is at risk for cost overrun. The  first engineer is arguing in favor of using multi-mode fibre while the second engineer  would like to use single mode fibre. You are the project engineer. Decide which of the  two transmission lines to use and justify your answer. d. For typical silica optical fibres with ncore = 1.45 and Δ = 5 x 10-3, calculate nclad and  NA e. For a typical silica fibre with D (@ λ = 1.3μm) = 2.5 nm ps/km and a semiconductor  laser source centred on λ = 1.3μm with Δλ = 4nm: the bandwidth length BL ≈ 100 Gbps  km (singlemode, step-index). What transmission speed is possible at a distance of 5km? f. A link from point a to point b is using bidirectional transceivers with transmit  power of 3.79dB. The receiver sensitivity is -23 dBm. The designed system margin is  6dB. There are 5 splices on the link each with loss of 0.2dB. The attenuation per km is  0.5dB. Calculate the received power if a 5dB attenuator is used and the length of the  link is 15km.

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a.What is the attenuation of 350 ft of RG-11 U coaxial cable at 100 MHz?
b. A transmitter has an output power of 3 W that is fed to an antenna through an RG58A/U cable 20 ft long. How much power reaches the antenna?
c. Two engineers have a disagreement over the selection of transmission line for 
connections within a 100m Data Centre on a project that is at risk for cost overrun. The 
first engineer is arguing in favor of using multi-mode fibre while the second engineer 
would like to use single mode fibre. You are the project engineer. Decide which of the 
two transmission lines to use and justify your answer.
d. For typical silica optical fibres with ncore = 1.45 and Δ = 5 x 10-3, calculate nclad and 
NA
e. For a typical silica fibre with D (@ λ = 1.3μm) = 2.5 nm ps/km and a semiconductor 
laser source centred on λ = 1.3μm with Δλ = 4nm: the bandwidth length BL ≈ 100 Gbps 
km (singlemode, step-index). What transmission speed is possible at a distance of 5km?
f. A link from point a to point b is using bidirectional transceivers with transmit 
power of 3.79dB. The receiver sensitivity is -23 dBm. The designed system margin is 
6dB. There are 5 splices on the link each with loss of 0.2dB. The attenuation per km is 
0.5dB. Calculate the received power if a 5dB attenuator is used and the length of the 
link is 15km.

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