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UTP (Unshielded twisted Pair) 25 pair cable colorcoding as is often used in telephony systems.

1 WHITE-BLUE BLUE-WHITE
2 WHITE-ORANGE ORANGE-WHITE
3 WHITE-GREEN GREEN-WHITE
4 WHITE-BROWN BROWN-WHITE
5 WHITE-GREY GREY-WHITE
6 RED-BLUE BLUE-RED
7 RED-ORANGE ORANGE-RED
8 RED-GREEN GREEN-RED
9 RED-BROWN BROWN-RED
10 RED-GREY GREY-RED
11 BLACK-BLUE BLUE-BLACK
12 BLACK-ORANGE ORANGE-BLACK
13 BLACK-GREEN GREEN-BLACK
14 BLACK-BROWN BROWN-BLACK
15 BLACK-GREY GREY-BLACK
16 YELLOW-BLUE BLUE-YELLOW
17 YELLOW-ORANGE ORANGE-YELLOW
18 YELLOW-GREEN GREEN-YELLOW
19 YELLOW-BROWN BROWN-YELLOW
20 YELLOW-GREY GREY-YELLOW
21 PURPLE-BLUE BLUE-PURPLE
22 PURPLE-ORANGE ORANGE-PURPLE
23 PURPLE-GREEN GREEN-PURPLE
24 PURPLE-BROWN BROWN-PURPLE
25 PURPLE-GREY GREY-PURPLE

RJ-45 CABLE (STRAIGHT) RJ-45 CABLE (CROSSED)

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TIA-568-A is a document; T568A is a jack wiring pattern.

What a difference two letters and hyphens can make-at a glance these terms look so much alike it's easy to see how people can
confuse them. But it's an important distinction. TIA-568-A is the Commercial Building Wiring Standard; T568A is one of two jack
wiring patterns which comply with that standard (the other pattern is called T568B). For more information on wiring patterns, see page
2-9, Figure 2-9. The U.S. Government requires the use of the preferred T568A standard for wiring done under federal contracts.

T568A and T568B are the two wiring standards for an 8-position modular connector, permitted under the TIA/EIA-568-A wiring
standards document. The only difference between T568A and T568B is that the orange and green wire pairs (pairs two and three) are
interchanged.

Here's the cabling for telephone, or LocalTalk over PhoneNet, on a two-pair RJ-11. Telephone uses the innermost two wires for line 1.
The outermost two wires are line 2, or used for PhoneNet.

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T568-A T568-B
ISDN equipment : wires 3 & 6 and 4 & 5

CROSS Cable wiring diagram:

STRAIGHT Cable wiring diagram :

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Network Cables
How do i make a networkcable for an ethernet network ?
Wat er dan meestal bedoeld wordt is in welke volgorde moet je nu die 8 draadjes van die kabel in de stekkertjes doen?
Daar is niet zomaar een antwoord op te geven, rond die simpele kabeltjes valt namelijk nog veel meer te vertellen.

The Network Cable

First the cable itself. It is not enough just to twist 8 wires, wrapping an extra isolation around and you are ready. Forget it !!
Here we are talking about UTP-cable (Unshielded Twisted Pair).
Unshielded, because this cable is not, like the COAX cables that where used for networks in the past and still is used as antenna cable,
shielded.
That "shield" in these cables is a metal protection, that shields the wires inside for the radiation (so called "Faraday cage").
Twisted Pair because the 8 wires that are twisted around in pairs of two.
The 4 "pairs" are twisted again on their turn.
The following colors are used in pairs: ORANGE/ORANGE-WHITE, GREEN/GREEN-WHITE, BLUE/BLUE-WHITE en
BROWN/BROWN-WHITE.
There are different categories of UTP cables. We d'ont gonna talk about the older types, they are nearly not more available on the
market.
We start therefore by CAT 5. In most cases CAT 5 UTP cable is more than sufficient, only if you need extreme long cables.

An overview:

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CATEGORY maximum length
CAT 5 100 meter
CAT 5e 350 meter
CAT 6 550 meter
CAT 7 700 meter

The RJ-plug The crimp tool

Push the 8 wires from the UTP-Cable in the RJ-plug.

With a special crimp tool, crimp the wires in the RJ-plug, and the cable and plug are secure. The crimp tool pushes the contacts in the
wires and crimps the end notch in the cable to secure them. Such a crimp tool is available for about 30 €.
The RJ-plug and the cable
We know what we need. Now we can put the plugs on the cable. But in what order we have to put them in the plug ?
This depends on the kind of cable you want to make:
Straight thru, you want to connect a few pc's with each other by means of a cable on an
HUB (or SWITCH or a ROUTER).

Crossover, you want to connect 2 pc's straight with each other, without a HUB (SWITCH or
ROUTER).
You also need a "crossover"-cable for a straight connection between a ROUTER and a pc.

Voor deze twee soorten kabels moeten de 8 draadjes in verschillend volgorde in de RJ45
stekkers gestopt worden.
Uiteraard is daar weer een standaard voor, er zijn er zelfs twee:

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Je kunt aan de volgorde van de draadjes in het stekkertje dus zien wat voor standaard of
gebruikt is. Zelf gebruik ik altijd de 568B standaard voor normale (straight thru) netwerk
kabels. In Nederland is dat ook min of meer de standaard.

A networkcable in fact only uses 4 wires: these on the pins: 1, 2, 3 and 6. The other wires
d'ont do anything !!
That's not completely true, surely by longer cables, the other wires want zeker bij de langere
kabels zorgen de overige draden doordat alle draden in elkaar gedraaid zijn voor een goede
ontstoring. Daarom is het ook belangrijk de draden volgens één van de standaarden in de
stekkers te doen.
Nu kunnen we een kabel maken. Eerst de eerste stekker, de draadjes moeten in de volgende
volgorde geplaatst worden (568B standaard):
Hier zie je nog eens 4 afbeeldingen van een "Normale" UTP stekker !!!

Vervolgens schuif je de acht draden in de RJ45 stekker en met behulp van de krimptang zet
je de RJ45 stekker vast aan de UTP kabel.

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UTP patch-kabel
Naming: UTP Straight Thru Patch cord
Standard: Standard EIA/TIA T568B
AT&T specification. (Used to be named
Alternatif names:
258A.)
Layout (clip is on the underside)
pin 1: WHITE-ORANGE (TxData +)
pin 2: ORANGE (TxData -)
pin 3: WHITE-GREEN (RecvData +)
pin 4: BLUE
pin 5: WHITE-BLUE
pin 6: GREEN (RecvData -)
pin 7: WHITE-BROWN
pin 8: BROWN

Pin 1 en 2 vormen een paar (Transmit data) en pin

3 en 6 vormen een paar (Receive data).
UTP cross-cable
Naming: UTP Cross-cable cord
Layout (clip is on the underside)
Side 1
pin 1: WHITE-ORANGE (TxData +)
pin 2: ORANGE (TxData -)
pin 3: WHITE-GREEN (RecvData +)
pin 4: BLUE
pin 5: WHITE-BLUE
pin 6: GREEN (RecvData -)
pin 7: WHITE-BROWN
pin 8: BROWN

Side 2
pin 1: WHITE-GREEN
pin 2: GREEN
pin 3: WHITE-ORANGE
pin 4: BLUE
pin 5: WHITE-BLUE
pin 6: ORANGE
pin 7: WHITE-BROWN
pin 8: BROWN

Specific Cabling
Use of pairs

The used paires (and associated pin's) from some types of schemes:
Cabletype Used pairs Associated pin's
ATM 155Mbps pair 2 and 4 pin's 1-2, 7-8
Ethernet 10Base-T pair 2 and 3 pin's 1-2, 3-6

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Ethernet 100Base-T4 pair 2 and 3 (4T+) pin's 1-2, 3-6
Ethernet 100Base-T8 pair 1,2,3 and 4 pin's 4-5, 1-2, 3-6, 7-8
Token-Ring pair 1 and 3 pin's 4-5, 3-6
TP-PMD pair 2 and 4 pin's 1-2, 7-8
100VG-AnyLAN pair 1,2,3 and 4 pin's 4-5, 1-2, 3-6, 7-8

Short explanation:
If there is stated that pairs 2 and 4 are used, there has to be read 4 wires and pin's. These pin's are mentioned per pair (ex. pin 1 and 2,
pin 7 and 8, get mentioned like 1-2, 7-8).

Usefull links:

Heldere site "Hoe maak ik en cross-kabel" Zeer goed uitgelegd, Nederlandstalig, met mooie plaatjes !!!

http://www.netspec.com/helpdesk/wiredoc.html
http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Howto/network/cable/index.htm
http://home.zonnet.nl/agoudberg/wiel.htm#Het%20opzetten%20van%20een%20file-server
http://www.linuxdocs.nl/view.php?id=28

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