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| An Ethernet LAN designed to run on UTP cabling. Runs at 100 Mbps and uses four-pair CAT 3 cabling. |
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| The technically accurate but little-used name for 100BaseT. |
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| An Ethernet LAN designed to run on UTP cabling. Runs at 100 Mbps, uses baseband signaling, and uses two pairs of wires on CAT 5 or better cabling. |
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| Nickname for the 100-Mbps Ethernet standards. Originally applied to 100BaseT. |
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| A cabling for networks composed of pairs of wires twisted around each other at specific intervals. |
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| An Ethernet LAN designed to run on fiber-optic cabling. Runs at 100 Mbps and uses baseband signaling. |
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| Any device that can only send or receive data at any given moment. |
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| Any device that can send and receive data simultaneously. |
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| A Gigabit Ethernet standard using CAT 5e/6 UTP cabling, with a 100-m maximum cable distance. |
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| An umbrella Gigabit Ethernet standard. Also known as 802.3z. Comprises all Gigabit standards with the exception of 1000BaseT, which is under the 802.3ab standard. |
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| A Gigabit Ethernet standard using unique copper cabling with a 25-m maximum cable distance. |
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| Another name for 1000BaseCX cable. |
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| A Gigabit Ethernet standard using multimode fiber cabling, with a 5-km maximum cable distance. |
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| 1000BaseSX uses _____ fiber-optic cabling to connect systems, with a generous maximum cable length of 220 to 500 meters. |
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| 1000BaseSX uses an _____-nm wavelength LED to transmit light on the fiber-optic cable. |
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| A Gigabit Ethernet standard using single-mode fiber cabling, with a 220- to 500-m maximum cable distance. |
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| A description of later-generation, fiber-optic connectors designed to be much smaller than the first iterations of connectors. |
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| The first type of Small Form Factor fiber connector still in common use. |
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| One popular type of SFF connector, considered by many to be the predominant fiber connector. |
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| A device that lets you interconnect different types of Ethernet cable. |
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| Gigabit Ethernet folks created a standard for modular ports called a _____. |
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| Currently (2012) the fastest Ethernet designation available, with a number of fiber-optic and copper standards. |
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| A standard for connecting fiber-optic transmission systems. |
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| A 10 GbE standard using 850-nm multimode fiber. Maximum cable length up to 300 m. |
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| A 10 GbE standard using 1310-nm single-mode fiber. Maximum cable length of 10 km. |
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| A 10 GbE standard using 1550-nm single-mode fiber. Maximum cable length of 40 km. |
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| A 10 GbE standard designed to run on CAT 6a UTP cabling. Maximum cable length is 100 meters. |
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| Interchangeable modular transceivers used in 10 GbE networking devices. |
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