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Specifications
Cabling and Technology Information
Cabling and Technology Information
Cabling Specifications
Cabling Specifications
Twisted-pair copper
10 Mb/s Operation Category 3, 4 or 5, 100-ohm unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) or
shielded twisted-pair (STP) cable, complying with IEEE 802.3
10BASE-T specifications.
100 Mb/s Operation Category 5, 100-ohm UTP or STP cable, complying with IEEE 802.3u
100BASE-TX specifications.
1000 Mb/s Operation Category 5, 100-ohm 4-pair UTP or STP cable, complying with IEEE
802.3ab 1000BASE-T specifications—Category 5e or better is
recommended. See note on 1000BASE-T Cable Requirements
below.
Multimode fiber
62.5/125 m or 50/125 m (core/cladding) diameter, low metal
content, graded index fiber-optic cables, complying with the
ITU-T G.651 and ISO/IEC 793-2 Type A1b or A1a standards
respectively.
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Single mode fiber
9/125 m (core/cladding) diameter, low metal content fiber-optic
cables, complying with the ITU-T G.652 and
ISO/IEC 793-2 Type B1 standards.
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A mode conditioning patch cord may be required for some Gigabit-LX installations.
See “Mode Conditioning Patch Cord” on page A-6 for more information.