SwitchBlade x3112 Installation Guide
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Cable Type The cabling requirements for a 10/100/1000Base-T port are:
For 10 Mbps operation: Standard TIA/EIA 568-B-compliant Category 3
or better shielded or unshielded cabling with 100 ohm impedance and
a frequency of 16 MHz.
For 100 Mbps operation: Standard TIA/EIA 568-A-compliant 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.
For 1000 Mbps operation: Standard TIA/EIA 568-A-compliant
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.
Auto MDI/MDI-X
The twisted-pair ports on the switch are IEEE 802.3ab compliant and
feature Auto MDI/MDI-X. This feature, available when a port’s speed and
duplex mode are set through Auto-Negotiation, automatically configures a
switch port to MDI or MDI-X depending on the wiring configuration of the
port on the end node. This allows you to connect any network device to a
port on the switch using a straight-through twisted-pair cable.
If Auto-Negotiation is disabled on a port and the speed and duplex mode
are set manually, the Auto MDI/MDI-X feature is also disabled and the
port’s wiring configuration defaults to the MDI-X setting.
Port Pinouts Refer to Table 14 on page 102 for the port pinouts when a twisted-pair port
operates at 10 or 100 Mbps in the MDI configuration and Table 15 on
page 102 for the MDI-X configuration. For port pinouts when a twisted-pair
port operates at 1000 Mbps, refer to Table 16 on page 103.