Ethernet Standards And Operating Speeds; Fast Ethernet Hub Classes - LevelOne FHU-1604TXDS User Manual

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Hub's RJ-45 Pin Assignments
Introduction
These hubs are technically known as 10/100BASE-TX Dual-Speed Ethernet hubs
and 100BASE-TX Fast Ethernet hubs. This Section describes what this means in
practical terms.
Ethernet Standards and Operation Speeds
Ethernet standards are defined by the Institute o f Electrical and Electronics
Engineers ( IEEE ). The standard for traditional Ethernet using hubs and
twisted-pair cables is known as 10BASE-T. Traditional Ethernet works at a
signaling speed of 10 Mbps, that is, ten megabits ( slightly more than a characters)
per second.The BASE in 10BASE-T stands for "baseband," a one-bit-at-a-time
signaling method; the T stands for twisted-pai cable.
Fast Ethernet was developed to meet the demand for increased "bandwidth," in
other word, greater data-carrying capacity. A fast Ethernet hub works at 100Mbps,
ten times the speed of a 100BASE-T hub.
The IEEE had defined several Fast Ethernet Standards. The hub complies with the
100BASE-TX standard: 100 Mbps baseband signaling on twisted-pair cables, with
signals crossing from the Transmit lines to the Receive lines somewhere between
each pair of communction end noeds.

Fast Ethernet Hub Classes

This hub series are Class II Fast Ethernet hub. This means two things:
1.This hub series will work with Fast Ethernet interface cards of one type only,
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