Cabletron Systems BRIM E100 BRIM-E100 User Manual

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Chapter 2: Cabling Requirements

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BRIM-E100 User’s Guide

If you are installing this BRIM into a 100BASE-TX/FX environment with
repeaters, use the repeater instruction manual to determine maximum
cable lengths when laying out your network.

UTP Maximum Cable Lengths

An unshielded twisted pair copper segment in a 100BASE-TX
environment may be no more than 100 meters in length.

Multimode Fiber Cable Lengths

The maximum distance between two Data Terminal Equipment (DTE)
devices on a 100BASE-FX segment may be no more than 412 meters in
half duplex mode or 2 Kilometers (DTE to DTE) in full duplex mode.

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