
Magnum 15E Media Converters
Installation and User Guide (07/01)
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which indicates a fiber cable length of about 40 meters.
It is obvious that using twisted pair wiring to connect the hubs would enable the
interconnect length to be the 100 meters maximum for twisted pair media, and this would
still leave about a hundred BTs as a safety margin. In other words, use of 15Es and fiber
in this case did not gain allowable maximum cable distance vs. TP cable without the
15Es.
Consider a more typical use of Magnum 15Es in a shared Fast Ethernet
segment. A stack of Fast Ethernet hubs comprises the only repeater in the collision
domain, and the users and servers in the local workgroup are each connected via
Category 5 twisted pair cable, a maximum of 30 meters (100 ft.) in length. It is desired to
connect one remote user with a fiber NIC via fiber cable, using a Magnum 15Es in the
circuit. How long can the fiber cable be?