AT-GS950/16 and AT-GS950/24 Gigabit Ethernet Smart Switches Installation Guide

Cable Specifications

Table 5 contains the cable specifications for the twisted pair ports.

Table 5. Twisted Pair Cabling and Distances

 

 

Maximum

Speed

Type of Cable

Operating

 

 

Distance

 

 

 

10 Mbps

Standard TIA/EIA 568-B-compliant

100 m (328 ft)

 

Category 3 or better shielded or

 

 

unshielded cabling with 100 ohm

 

 

impedance and a frequency of 16

 

 

MHz.

 

 

 

 

100 Mbps

Standard TIA/EIA 568-A-compliant

100 m (328 ft)

 

Category 5 or TIA/EIA 568-B-

 

 

compliant Enhanced Category 5

 

 

(Cat 5e) shielded or unshielded

 

 

cabling with 100 ohm impedance

 

 

and a frequency of 100 MHz.

 

 

 

 

1000 Mbps

Standard TIA/EIA 568-A-compliant

100 m (328 ft)

 

Category 5 or TIA/EIA 568-B-

 

 

compliant Enhanced Category 5

 

 

(Cat 5e) shielded or unshielded

 

 

cabling with 100 ohm impedance

 

 

and a frequency of 100 MHz.

 

 

 

 

Note

The twisted pair ports on the switch feature auto-MDI when operating at 10, 100 or 1000 Mbps. Each of the ports is individually configured as MDI or MDI-X when connected to an end node. Consequently, you can use a straight-through twisted pair cable when connecting any type of network device to a port on the switch.

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Allied Telesis AT-GS950/16-10 manual Cable Specifications, Speed Type of Cable

AT-GS950/16-10, AT-GS950/16 specifications

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