Local Area Networks (LAN) White Papers
Field Testing of High Performance Premise Cabling
Overview Installing and maintaining a reliable cable plant is essential to the well being of today’s mission-critical LANs. Category 5E UTP is today’s preferred choice for LAN cabling. Standards for Gigabit Ethernet are almost complete, providing 1000 Mbps over UTP. Category 6 will provide significant performance advantages over previous types of UTP, and Category 7 takes copper further still. While Category 5 UTP has become the preferred choice for LAN cabling, enhanced Category 5, Category 6, Category 7, and optical fiber have made significant strides in the last 12 months. There are many new alternatives, and it can be difficult to separate hype from useful information. This paper is intended for those who work with high speed cabling, both twisted pair and optical fiber. It provides an up-to-date review of cabling alternatives, physical layer measurements, cabling standards, troubleshooting practices, and certification techniques.
| Publisher | TestMart | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 13 |
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