2321004

PRACTICAL NO.- 1

AIM: RJ45 connector with twisted pair cable.

Description:
Rj45 Connector: RJ45 stands for Registered Jack 45 and is the most commonly used connector
in wired networks. The jacks are mainly used to connect to the Local Area Network (LAN). It was
earlier devised for telephones but is now widely used in Ethernet Networking. The 45 in RJ45
basically stands for the listing number. The width of RJ45 is usually greater than that of the
telephone cables or other Registered Jacks. Compared to additional jacks the bandwidth provided
by these is high and the range is usually 10 Gpbs. Because of speed and enhanced security, they
are used to connect personal computers to servers, routers etc. These jacks are mostly used in
Star Topology.

Twisted pair cable: These are a type of guided media. It was invented by Alexander Graham
Bell. Twisted pair cables have two conductors that are generally made up of copper and each
conductor has insulation. These two conductors are twisted together, thus giving the name
twisted pair cables. One of the conductors is used to carry the signal and the other is used as a
ground reference only. The receiver uses the difference of signals between these two conductors.
The noise or crosstalk in the two parallel conductors is high but this is greatly reduced in twisted
pair cables due to the twisting characteristic.
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Crimping tool: A crimping tool is a device that is used to make cold weld joints between wires
and a connector through deforming one or both of them to hold the other. A special connector is
used to join metals together. The weld joint properties (mechanical and electrical) are strong as
the parent materials when the tool works and offer some result, which is known as crimp. An
instance of crimping is to affixing a connector to the end of a wire. For example, a crimping tool
is used to create phone cable sand network cables to combine RJ-11 and RJ-45 connectors to
both ends of the phone or Cat 5 cable. The below picture is an example of RJ-11 (6-pin) and RJ-
45 (8-pin) crimping tools.

Requirement tools: The following tools required for RJ45 connector.

1) RJ45
2) Twisted pair cable
3) Crimping Tool

Connections: