What is a Power Cable and a Data Cable?

What is a power cable?

A power cable is an assembly of one or more electrical conductors, usually held together with an overall sheath. The assembly is used for transmission of electrical power. Power cables may be installed as permanent wiring within buildings, buried in the ground, run overhead, or exposed.

Flexible power cables are used for portable devices, mobile tools and machinery.

What is a Data Cable?

A data cable is any media that allows baseband transmissions (binary 1,0s) from a transmitter to a receiver. Coaxial cable is sometimes used as a baseband digital data cable, such as in serial digital interface and thicknet and thinnet.