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Thick Ethernet Cable

ALSO CALLED: 10Base5, Thicknet, Thickwire, Yellow Cable, and Thick Coax
DEFINITION: 10BASE-5, one of several physical media specified by IEEE 802.3 for use in an Ethernet local area network (LAN), consists of Thickwire coaxial cable with a maximum segment length of 500 meters. Like other specified media,  … 
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Network Cabling Basics - What You Need to Know about 10Gb/s
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Posted: 20 Jun 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2007
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THICK ETHERNET CABLE DEFINITION (continued): …  10BASE-2 supports Ethernet's 10 Mbps data rate.

In addition to 10BASE-5, 10 megabit Ethernet can be implemented with these media types:

  • 10BASE-2 (Thinwire coaxial cable with a maximum segment length of 185 meters)
  • 10BASE-F (optical fiber cable)
  • 10BASE-T (ordinary telephone twisted pair wire)
  • 10BASE-36 (broadband multi-channel coaxial cable with a maximum segment length of 3,600 meters)

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