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Cabling
Use four twisted-pair, Category 5e or above cabling for RJ-45 port connection. The
cable between the switch and the link partner (switch, hub, workstation, etc.) must
be less than 100 meters (328 ft.) long.
Gigabit Copper/SFP (mini-GBIC) combo port:
The Industrial switch has the auto-detected Giga port—Gigabit Copper/SFP combo ports.
The Gigabit Copper (10/100/1000T) ports should use Category 5e or above UTP/STP
cable for the connection speed up to 1000Mbps. The small form-factor pluggable (SFP)
is a compact optical transceiver used i n o ptical c ommunications f or bot h
telecommunication and data communications. The SFP slots supporting dual mode can
switch the connection speed between 100 and 1000Mbps. They are used for connecting
to the network segment with single or multi-mode fiber. You can choose the appropriate
SFP t ransceiver t o pl ug i nto t he S FP s ocket. T hen us e pr oper multi-mode or single-
mode fiber cable according to that transceiver.
Note
The particular SFP/Copper Combo port is deemed to be a single port that
either the SFP or Copper port works; the SFP and Copper ports can’t both
work at the same time.
The SFP port has the higher priority than the corresponding copper port; if you
insert the
1000M
SFP transceiver (which has connected a fiber cable between
that transceiver and the remote node) into the SFP port, the connection of the
corresponding copper port will link down.
If you insert the
100M
SFP transceiver into the SFP port even without a fiber
cable between that transceiver and the remote node, the connection of the
corresponding copper port will link down immediately.
