Hawassa University

School of Informatics

April 2013
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 Lab 1
Crimping Cables
&
Building Peer-to-peer network

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Lab agenda
 Crimping Cables
 Building Peer-to-peer network

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Cable crimping
 Network cables

10Base-T 100Base-TX 1000Base-T 1000Base-TX

Speed 10Mbps 100Mbps 1000Mbps 1000Mbps

Cat3 or Cat5 or Cat5e or Cat6 or

Cable
higher higher higher higher

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The inside of UTP cable
 Wires in the cable
 8 wires (4 twisted pairs of wires)
 Pair of Green, Orange, Blue, Brown
 2 standards for the arrangement.

T568A Standard T568B Standard

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Type of network cables
 Straight through cable:
 is used for PC-to-Hub connection
 T568A-T568A or T568B-T568B
 Cross over cable:
 is used for PC-to-PC or Hub-to-Hub(cascade)
connection
 T568A-T568B
 Cascade; 10Base-T: 4layer, 100Base-TX: 2layer
 Role over cable: used for network device configuration.
 T568A- reveres of T568A
 T568B- reverses of T568B

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Removing the outer cover

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Arranging cables with their color

GOOD NG

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Arranging cables with their color

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Arranging cables with their color

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Cutting and using a plastic cover

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Cutting and using RJ-45

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Using crimpers

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Now is your part!

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