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Category 3 Cabling and Its Use In Business
Category 3 Cabling and Its Use In Business
Category 3 Cabling and Its Use in Business
Twisted wire cables are the most common method of transmission of data over LAN. Twisted pair cable consists of color coded pair of copper cables. Every wire is twisted around one another to form a twister pair, this helps in reducing electromagnetic interference. They are encased in a plastic sheath. The number of pair depends on the type of cable being used.
Cat 3 is a form of twisted wire cable which consists of four wire pairs. They can transmit data up to 10 MbPs at 16Mhz. Cat 3 are typically used for 10 Mb LAN, in this case only two of the four pairs are actually used, the second set can be used to connect additional phone lines. They can also be used for implementing 4 Mb token ring LAN.
CAT 3 cable offers following advantages
• Wide deployment
• Industry acceptance
• Ease of installation
• Fault tolerance
• Substantial bandwidth
• Low cost
Twisted wire cables are commonly used in a small environment (max length running upto 300 feet) in a Star LAN topology. In a star topology each unit is connected individually to a central unit (Hub or Switch), this type of topology is very robust as failure in one cable will not affect the entire LAN. Main use of Twister Cables
• Areas of little to no EMI or RFI noise such as a standard office building
• Short cable runs
• Connections to users’ desktops
• Server connections that don’t require 100% fault tolerance
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