Cables Flashcards
1000base-T
Category 5
10” meters
1000base-T
Category 5e
Enhanced
100 meters
10GBase -T
10 gig Ethernet over copper
Category 6
4 pair
Unshielded 55 meters
Shielded 100 meters
Frequency 500MHz
10GBase-T
Category 6A
augmented
100 meters
10GBase-T
Category 7
Shielded only
100 meters
40Gbase- T
Category 8
4 pair
Shielded only
30 meters
T568A
Horizontal
Green and green stripe together
Number 1 & 2 position
Orange stripe next to solid blue
T568B
More common
Orange and orange stripe together numbers 1 and 2
Green stripe next to solid blue
Multimodal fiber
Short range. Up to 2 km
Inexpensive light source = LED
Bounces inside of fiber
Single-mode fiber
Long range up to 100km
Light sends straight through
More expensive light source = laser
UPC. Ultra polished connectors
Ferrule end face radius polished to zero degree angle
Has a high return loss
APC. Angel polish connectors
Ferrule end face polished at an eight degree angle
Has Lower return loss
10 Base-T (twisted pair)
Two pair
Cat 3 minimum
100 meter max
100Base-TX
Fast Ethernet
Two pair
Cat 5 minimum
100 meter max
1000Base-T
Gigabit Ethernet over Cat 5
4 pair
Cat 5e
100 meter max
100Base-FX
Pair is multitude fiber
400 meters half duplex
2km full duplex
Laser light
100Base-SX
Less expensive
100 megabit Ethernet over fiber
LED optics
300 meters max
1000Base -SX
Gigabit Ethernet using short wavelength laser
Multi mode fiber
220 to 550 meters depending on fiber type
1000Base-LX
Long wavelength laser
Multi mode to 550 meters
Single mode to 5 km
10 Base-SR
Short range
Multi mode
26 to 400 meters depending on fiber specs
10 Base-LR
Long Range
Single mode
10 km max
WDM
Wave length division multiplexing
Bidirectional communication over single strand of fiber
Different wavelengths.
CWDM
Course wavelength
10GBase-LX uses four 3.125 Gbit/second carriers at 4 different wavelengths
DWDM
Dense wavelength
Multiplex multiple OC carriers into a single fiber
Add 160 signals increase to 1.6 Tbits/second
160 signals
