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ethrbunny
Asked: 2013-02-09 10:24:46 +0800 CST

What kind of cable is this?

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I need to cost out some switching and figure out how to network a PC to this type of network.

One end

Terminated

Clarifying: This is to connect units in a high rise facility. Each unit has the top picture in a closet. In every other floor in the hallway the cables from two floors are brought together in a panel. Then each panel sends a cable to the basement.

So I'm trying to figure out how to

  1. Attach a PC (via cat5) at the apartment level.
  2. Concentrate the signals from the units at the hallway level and send this down to the basement where it would get sent to a server.
switch

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    That's not a network - that's just the physical medium. More information is on Wikipedia.

    The type of connectors you have on top are LC, the connectors you have on the bottom are SC.

    LC:

    LC connectors

    SC:

    SC connectors

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  2. SC multimode fiber.

    Generally you don't network a computer directly into fiber (although you can buy HBAs for PCs). Normally Fiber is used as a backbone for your network. Switches then connect to this fiber, and connect out to PCs over copper/RJ45.

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