Kingston Technology KNS1600 manual UTP Cable Wiring Standards, T568A

Appendix B Cabling Guidelines 11

UTP Cable Wiring Standards

There are two governmental agencies: the Electronic Industry Association (EIA) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), which set the standard for all cable wiring requirements for commercial buildings.

With the advent of 100Mb/s networking products, it is best to use higher quality CAT 5 cables like Belden or Helix as well as CAT 5-compliant patch panels, patch cables, and connectors while following the EIA/TIA wiring standards. 100 Ω UTP CAT 5 type cables use 4-pair UTP wiring.

Refer to the illustrations below for 4-pair wiring using either T568A (Fig. B-1) or T568B (Fig. B-2) wiring standards. Both T568A and T568B wiring is compatible with 10BASE-T and 100BASE-TX and require no special configurations, but for premise wiring, stick to one wiring standard. Mixing T568A and T568B wiring schemes may cause or lead to potential problems.

Pair 2	Pair 3
Pair 3 Pair 1 Pair 4	Pair 2 Pair 1 Pair 4

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

T568A

Fig. B-1 4-Pair T568A Wiring

T568A	Pairs	Strand	Solid
Pin 1	Pair 3	Blue	White/Green
Pin 2	Pair 3	Orange	Green/White
Pin 3	Pair 2	Black	White/Orange
Pin 4	Pair 1	Red	Blue/White
Pin 5	Pair 1	Green	White/Blue
Pin 6	Pair 2	Yellow	Orange/White
Pin 7	Pair 4	Brown	White/Brown
Pin 8	Pair 4	White	Brown/White

Table B-4 4-Pair T568A Wiring

T568B

Fig. B-2 4-Pair T568B Wiring

T568B	Pairs	Strand	Solid
Pin 1	Pair 2	Black	White/Orange
Pin 2	Pair 2	Yellow	Orange/White
Pin 3	Pair 3	Blue	White/Green
Pin 4	Pair 1	Red	Blue/White
Pin 5	Pair 1	Green	White/Blue
Pin 6	Pair 3	Orange	Green/White
Pin 7	Pair 4	Brown	White/Brown
Pin 8	Pair 4	White	Brown/White

Table B-5 4-Pair T568B Wiring

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