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• All feature tight-buffered fiber with an
acrylate fiber coating and aramid yard
strength members.
• Use with either LED or laser light
sources.
• With a laser light source, bandwidth
increases to 2000 MHz/km.
• Use the cable in 10-Gigabit Ethernet
runs up to 300 meters, making it ideal
for backbone and campus connections.
Thinking of upgrading to 10-Gigabit Ethernet? Here’s
the laser-optimized 50-micron cable you want.
Since 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10-GBE) was ratified in June
2002, the move is on to upgrade Ethernet networks. 10-GBE
is a logical extension of previous Ethernet versions and was
designed to make the transition from LANs to Wide Area
Networks (WANs) and Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs).
10-GBE offers a cost-effective migration for high-performance
and long-haul transmissions at up to 40 kilometers. Its most
common application now is as a backbone for high-speed
LANs, server farms, and campuses. It also enables you to
connect geographically separated LANs to new MANs and
WANs via dark fiber, dark wavelengths, or SONET/SDH
networks.
10-GBE supports existing Ethernet technologies. It uses the
same layers (MAC, PHY, and PMD), and the same frame sizes
and formats. But the IEEE 802.3ae spec defines two sets of
physical interfaces: LAN (LAN PHY) and WAN (WAN PHY).
The most notable difference between 10-GBE and previous
Ethernets is that 10-GBE operates in full-duplex only and
specifies fiber optic media. The chart shown at right notes the
differences between Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet.
Choose from three styles:
• Zipcord patch cable with a PVC jacket.
• Bulk distribution-style cable with a PVC or plenum jacket.
• Bulk zipcord cable with a PVC or plenum jacket.
You can use these cables with LED or laser light sources.
Because the cable is optimized for a laser light source,
bandwidth increases to 2000 MHz/km with one.
This cable is ideal for use in 10-Gigabit Ethernet runs
up to 300 meters, making it ideal for backbone and campus
connections.
Buyer’s Guide
10-GBE
10GBASE-SR
10GBASE-SW
10GBASE-LR
10GBASE-LW
10GBASE-LX4
10GBASE-ER
10GBASE-EW
10GBASE-CX4*
10GBASE-T*
Gigabit vs. 10-Gigabit Ethernet
Distance
300 m
300 m
10 km
10 km
Multimode 300 m/
Single-Mode 10 km
40 km
40 km
15 m
25–100 m
Wavelength
850 nm
850 nm
1310 nm
1310 nm
1310 nm
WWDM
1550 nm
1550 nm
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Cable
Multimode
Multimode
Single-Mode
Single-Mode
Multimode or
Single-Mode
Single-Mode
Single-Mode
4 x Twinax
Twisted Pair
* Proposed for copper.
The alphabetical coding for 10-GBE is as follows:
S = 850 nm
L = 1310 nm
E = 1550 nm
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X = 8B/10B signal encoding
R = 66B encoding
W = WIS interface (for use with SONET)
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