HP 7500 Series - Cable Type

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• Standard 568B—pin 1: white/orange stripe, pin 2: orange solid, pin 3: white/green stripe, pin 4:
blue solid, pin 5: white/blue stripe, pin 6: green solid, pin 7: white/brown stripe, pin 8: brown
solid.
Cable type
Based on performance
Ethernet cables can be classified into category 3, category 4, category 5, category 5e, category 6, and
category 7 cable based on performance. In LANs, category 5, category 5e, and category 6 are
commonly used.
Table 86 Description on commonly used Ethernet cables
T
yp
e Descri
p
tion
Category 5 Transmits data at a maximum speed of 100 Mbps, with a bandwidth of 100 MHz.
Category 5e Transmits data at a maximum speed of 1000 Mbps, with a bandwidth of 100 MHz.
Category 6 Transmits data at a speed higher than 1 Gbps, with a bandwidth of 250 MHz.
NOTE:
The RJ-45 Ethernet ports of the 7500 Switch Series use cate
g
ory 5 or hi
g
her Ethernet twisted pair cables
for connection.
Based on pinouts
Ethernet twisted pair cables can be classified into straight through and crossover cables based on their
pinouts.
• Straight-through: The pinouts at both ends comply with standard 568B, as shown in Figure 58.
• C
rossover: The pinouts at one end comply with standard 568B, and those at the other end comply
with standard 568A, as shown in Figure 59.