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Specifications
Cabling and Technology Specifications
Table 3.
Cabling Specifications
Twisted-pair copper
10 Mbps 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 Mbps Operation
Category 5, 100-ohm UTP or STP cable, complying with IEEE
802.3u 100BASE-TX specifications.
1000 Mbps 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.
10 Gbps Operation
Category 6 or 6A, 100-ohm 4-pair UTP cable, or Category 6A or 7,
100-ohm 4-pair STP cable, complying with IEEE 802.3an 10GBASE-
T specifications. See note on 10GBASE-T Cable Requirements
below, and see Table 4 for distances supported with each cable
type.
Twinaxial copper
CX4 cables
Twinaxial cables complying with IEEE 802.3ak 10GBASE-CX4
specifications.
Direct attach cables
One-piece devices consisting of a cable with SFP+ connectors
permanently attached to each end, complying with SFF 8431 SFP+
specifications.
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.
1
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.
1
A mode conditioning patch cord may be needed for some Gigabit-LX and 10-Gigabit LRM installations.
See
“Mode Conditioning Patch Cord” on page 39
for more information.
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