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n. Any cable allowing baseband transmissions in binary from a transmitter to a receiver.
Wikipedia
A data cable is any media that allows baseband transmissions (binary 1,0s) from a transmitter to a receiver.
Examples Are:
- Networking Media
- Telecommunications Cable ( Cat2 or telephone cord)
- Media devices
- USB cable
Usage examples of "data cable".
He and Caen were several kilometers from where they had severed the data cable.
He traced the main data cable that connected the local computer to the machine, disconnected it at both ends, undid its restraining clips, removed the cable completely and threw it in the trash bin.
A data cable ran from one of Gadget's ports through a hole drilled in the compartment.
The weapon was plugged into his belt with a short fiber-optic data cable, and with a simple voice command it was activated and Wohl started searching for targets.
This was the sort of tunnel that we were following, tracing the data cable back to the Earthworm's big computer.
That will allow the NSA to tap into Trinity's data cable and substitute its own signal, which will fool the computers that control the missiles into thinking everything is fine.
Hardcastle plugged the driver's Kevlar helmet communications cord into the computer, got out of the vehicle, unreeled the fiberoptic data cable at least fifty feet, and knelt.
Working very, very quickly, his hands moving fast, he ran a data cable back to the Felix black box and started the computer.
The only links to the platform were a high-band data cable and the mechanical latches.