Physical Media Flashcards
F-Type
Coaxial - standard cable screw on cable
BNC
Coaxial - legacy push and turn on cable
RJ45
8-pin connector
RJ11
6-pin , 2 pins used. Ex. Phone jack
CAT 5
(Fast Ethernet)
100BASE-TX
100 Mbps
100 Meters
CAT 5e
(Gigabit Ethernet)
1000BASE-T
1000 Mbps (1 Gbps)
100 Meters
CAT 3
(Ethernet)
10BASE-T
10 Mbps
100 Meters
CAT 6
1000BASE-T | 10GBASE-T
1 Gbps |10 Gbps
100 meters | 55 meters
CAT 6a
10GBASE-T
10 Gbps
100 meters
CAT 7
10GBASE-T
10 Gbps
100 meters
CAT 8
40GBASE-T
40 Gbps
30 meters
568A pattern
GW,G,OW,B,BW,O,BrW,Br
568B pattern
OW,O,GW,B,BW,G,BrW,Br
SMF
Single Mode Fiber
-up to 40 Kilometers
-smaller core size allowing for only single mode of travel for light.
-8.3 - 10 microns in diameter
MMF
Multimode Fiber
-200-500 meters or more
-larger core size allowing for multiple modes of travel
-50 - 100 microns in diameter
SC
Subscriber Connector
-“Stick and Click”
-Square shaped
ST
Straight Tip Connector
-“Stick and Twist”
LC
Lucent Connector
-“Love Connector”
-smaller version of SC
MTRJ
Mechanical Transfer Registered Jack
-Smallest form factor
-both transmit and receive in one connector
APC
Angled Physical Contact connector
-Fiber end face is polished at an angle
-better single, less noise
UPC
Ultra Physical Contact connector
-End face has no angle but polished curve end
WDM
Wave Division Mutliplexing
-Combine multiple signals into one signal sent over a single fiber strand using different wavelengths of the laser light source.
CWDM
Coarse WDM
- up to 18 wavelength channels
- 20 nm apart per channel
- up to 10 Gbps (Ethernet)
-up to 16 Gbps (Fiber)
DWDM
Dense WDM
-Up to 80 channels
-0.8nm
-Up to 8 Tbps (100 Gbps/channel)
GBIC
Standard hot-pluggable gigabit Ethernet transceiver
-can take on copper or fiber
SFP
Small form-factor pluggable transceiver
-up to 4.2 Gbps
SFP+
Up to 16 Gbps
QSFP
Quad small form-factor pluggable transceiver
- up to 40 Gbps
QSFP+
- up to 41.2 Gbps
QSFP28
-up to 100 Gbps
QSFP56
-up to 200 Gbps
66 Block
aka M Block
-used in older analog telephone systems
-supports a 25-pair cable
110 Block
-Supports high speed data networks for CAT 5 and above.
-insulation displacement contact connectors
Krone Block
-proprietary European alternative to 110 Block
-uses a 45 degree angle punchdown contact
BIX Block
Proprietary punch down that comes in various sizes
Which two fiber standards run single mode fiber?
Hint: “S is not Single”
1000BASE-LX, 10GBASE-LR