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| 10BaseT - An Ethernet standard that uses twisted wire pairs. |
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| 100BaseTX - IEEE physical layer specification for 100 Mbps over two pairs of |
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| Category 5 UTP or STP wire. |
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| Ethernet service over Category 5e links as defined by |
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| Topology rules for |
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| Category 5e link lengths are limited to 100 meters by the |
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| A cabling standard. Only one CSMA/CD repeater will be allowed in a collision |
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| Adapter - Printed circuit board that plugs into a PC to add to capabilities or |
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| connectivity to a PC. In a networked environment, a network interface card |
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| (NIC) is the typical adapter that allows the PC or server to connect to the |
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| automatically senses if it needs to act as a MDI or MDIX port. The auto- |
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| MDI/MDIX capability eliminates the need for crossover cables. |
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| often used with communications and networking. For example, Ethernet |
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| 10/100 cards, hubs and switches can determine the highest speed of the node |
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| they are connected to and adjust their transmission rate accordingly. |
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| Backbone - The part of a network that connects most of the systems and net- |
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| works together and handles the most data. |
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| Bandwidth - The transmission capacity of a given facility, in terms of how |
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| much data the facility can transmit in a fixed amount of time; expressed in bits |
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| CAT 3 - ANSI/EIA (American National Standards Institute/Electronic |
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| Industries Association) Standard 568 is one of several standards that specify |
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| “categories” (the singular is commonly referred to as “CAT”) of twisted pair |
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| cabling systems (wires, junctions, and connectors) in terms of the data rates |
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| that they can sustain. CAT 3 cable has a maximum throughput of 16 Mbps and |
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| is usually utilized for 10BaseT networks. |
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