DEC BC09J cable

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Feb 28 21:25:39 2002

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Feb 28, 14:48, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
>
> > Do you mean for the outside sleeve, or the individual wires in the
> > cable? For the outside, there is no real standard color that I'm aware
> > of, although there is a standard ordering for the wires when crimping
> > (I think it goes orange, green, brown, blue (solid followed by white
> > and color) but don't quote me on that---it's been awhile since I've
> > crimped CAT5 network cables).
>
> Not quite. It's white-with-colour then plain colour (or colour with a
> thin white stripe or rings), and the common order in Europe is T568B
> (aka 258A):
>
> I believe the common order in the States is to swap orange and green
> pairs, which is T568A. If you use one scheme at one end and the other
> scheme at the opposite end, you have a standard Ethernet crossover
> cable. ie, pins 1 and 2 are swapped with pins 3 and 6 but pins 4+5
> and 7+8 are straight-through.

I haven't found 586A to be used more than 586B here in the US. Nearly
every ethernet installation I've worked on used 586B, but I have seen 586A
used quite abit for Token Ring over twisted pair.

-Toth
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 21:25:39 GMT