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4 pairs
four pairs
1000 Mbps. What Ethernet standard below is also referred to as “thinnet “? 10Base2.
40,000 meters
40km
10Gbps
The first major difference is the gigabit standards require the use of all four pairs (all eight wires), unlike Fast Ethernet which only utilizes two pairs of wires. As a result, in Gigabit Ethernet , all four pairs must be crossed when building a Crossover cable.
Fiber-optic cable is a form of cable that contains one or several glass or plastic fibers in its core and comes in two types : single- mode fiber (SMF) or multimode fiber (MMF).
Why should you terminate coaxial cable with connectors that are rated for the exact cable type ? A mismatched connector will have different impedance ratings , causing data errors. A wavelength mismatch occurs when transmissions are optimized for one type of cable but sent over a different type of cable .
Thicknet was the original Ethernet wiring, but Thinnet , which is cheaper and can be installed more easily, is the more commonly installed Ethernet wire . Thicknet continues to be used for backbone wiring. An alternative to Thinnet on an Ethernet network is twisted pair.
10BASE2 (also known as cheapernet, thin Ethernet, thinnet, and thinwire) is a variant of Ethernet that uses thin coaxial cable terminated with BNC connectors to build a local area network.
100 meters
10GBASE – LR maximum fiber length is 10 kilometers, although this will vary depending on the type of single-mode fiber used.
90 meters
Generally, the maximum transmission distance is limited by dispersion in fiber optic cable . There are two types of dispersion that can affect the optical transmission distance . One is chromatic dispersion, which is the spreading of the signal over time resulting from the different speeds of light rays.