SPECIFICATIONS
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Cable Types
The FDDI Physical Layer Medium Dependent (PMD), Twisted Pair
Physical Layer Medium Dependent (TP-PMD), and Single Mode Fiber
Physical Medium Dependent (SMF-PMD) ANSI standards define
cable requirements as follows:
Multimode Fiber:
Core diameter:
62.5
µ
m nominal
Cladding diameter:
128.0
µ
m maximum
122.0
µ
m minimum
Cable attenuation:
≤
2.5 dB/km typical
Unshielded / Shielded Twisted Pair:
Cable / Connector — Category 5
Single Mode Fiber:
Core diameter:
8.7
µ
m +/- 0.5
µ
m
Cladding diameter:
127.0
µ
m maximum
Cable attenuation:
≤
0.5 dB/km typical
Multimode Fiber Optic Cable Length
The PMD FDDI standard specifies the following:
Maximum total
cable length:
100 km (62 miles) — dual ring
200 km (124 miles) — wrapped
Maximum multimode
cable length between
adjacent nodes:
2 km (1.2 miles)