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IV Coaxial Cable (Coax)
Legacy coax cable technologies include
10Base2, also known as Thinnet and 10Base5, known
in the field as Thicknet. The characteristics and functionality
of 10Base2 and 10Base5 cable is specified by an IEEE standard called
802.3 that defines the properties of network data transmission for Ethernet.
We’ll visit this in more detail in later chapters. For now, we’ll
concentrate on the physical characteristics of these types of cable.
Just know that these types of cable are used when wiring networks that
use the Ethernet standard for signal transmission.
As you might imagine from the nicknames,
you can tell the difference between the two types by examining
the thickness of the cable. 10Base2 cable is thinner
coax (it looks like cable TV wiring) and 10Base5 cable
is thicker coax, often bright blue or orange in color.
Figure 10: Cross section of coax cable
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Typically, 10Base2 and
10Base5 cable is used to construct networks with bus topologies.
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