Thinnet coax uses a BNC connector, which is a twist-on, twist-off connection used with a T-fitting.
The type of cabling used in houses is called Non Metallic Sheath Cabling.
BNC
BNC connecter
BNC Connector
Yes, there are Many kinds of NICs capable of using multiple cabling a 10/100 NIC is a NIC that can use both 10BaseT Cabling and 100Base Cabling
fiber optic
Cat5e or Cat6
Shielded Twisted Pair (STP)
im going to assume your talking about computer networking which in this case would be RISER. In ceiling would be plenum
Commonly a FIBER cable will be used to do a vertical cross-connect.
The type of cabling you would use for 100BaseT is Cat5E.
Thicknet used 5mm coax, thinnet used 10mm.