Chapter 1 Introduction; Using This Guide; Document Organization - Cabletron Systems 100BASE-FX Cabling Manual

Introduction

Using This Guide

The Cabletron Systems Cabling Guide is intended to provide much of the
information necessary to allow Network Managers to plan facility network
cabling and to ensure that the cabling is usable by the networking devices that
will populate the cabling.
This Cabling Guide also provides instructions that may be helpful for connecting
Cabletron Systems networking devices to an existing facility cabling
infrastructure.

Document Organization

This guide begins with an overview of the important aspects of cabling and
cables. The information presented in the initial sections is essential to a complete
understanding of the material that is presented in later sections. Following the
introductory material, detailed examinations of the standard media and
connectors used for Ethernet, Token Ring, and Fiber Distributed Data Interface
(FDDI) networks are presented. The closing sections of the document describe
some common installation and cable management devices, and explain some
methods for testing cables and planning installations.
The remainder of this guide contains charts and tables which supply much of the
information that the cable system planning process requires, and an extensive
glossary of the terms used within this guide and other Cabletron Systems
publications.
Chapter 1
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