Cable standards in networking
One of the benefits of learning networking is that there are a lot of defined standards. This allows equipment from multiple vendors to work together without problems brought by proprietary platforms.Network cables also come in standard specifications. You can purchase a 10BASE-T cable from five different manufacturers and each one will work with your equipment without a problem. In this section, you will learn:
- Standard copper and fibber optic cables;
- Characteristics of cable standards;
- 10BASE-T and 10BASE-FL
- 100BASE-TX and 100BASE-FX
- 1000BASE-T, 1000BASE-CX, 1000BASE-SX and 1000BASE-LX
- 10 GBASE-SR, 10 GBASE-LR and 10 GBASE-ER
10Base-T is one of the Ethernet standards for cabling in a network environment. 10BaseT uses a twisted pair cable with a maximum length of 100 meters. Standard 10BaseT operates at 10 Mbps. It is commonly used in a star topology.
10BASE-FL Cable Standard
10BaseFL is a fibber optic cable standard designed to run at 10 Mbps. It is similar to 10Base-T, though the media type is fibber. For use up to 2000 meters.
100BASE-TX Cable Standard
100 Mbps Fast Ethernet over category 5 twisted pair cable. Maximum cable length of 100 meters.
100BASE-FX Cable Standard
100 Mbps Fast Ethernet standard over fibber cable. Can transmit data up to 2000 meters.
1000BASE-T Cable Standard
Gigabit Ethernet over twisted pair copper wires. Transmit up to 1000 Mbps. 100 meter maximum cable length. Cat5 or better required (Cat6 cabling recommended).
1000BASE-CX Cable Standard
Gigabit Ethernet over a special copper twinax cable. Up to 25 meters in length. Typically used in a wiring closet or data center as a short jumper cable.
1000BASE-SX Cable Standard
Gigabit Ethernet using a short-wavelength laser device over multimode fibber optic cable. 50 µm core (max 300 meters) or 62.5 µm core (max 500 meters). 1000Mbps maximum transfer speed.
1000BASE-LX Cable Standard
Gigabit Ethernet using long-wavelength laser transmitters over fibber optic cable. Up to 3,000 meters. Uses single mode fibber and requires SC connectors for terminating the cable.
10 GBASE-SR Cable Standard
802.3ae standard. 33 meters for 62.5µm fibber optic cable, 300 meters for 50µm cables. 10 Gbps (Gigabit per second) transfer rate.
10 GBASE-LR Standard
10 Gbps transfer rate. 10 kilometres maximum distance. Fibber optic cable.
10 GBASE-ER Standard
10 Gbps transfer rate. 40 kilometres maximum cable length. Fibber optic cable.
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