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How to wire your own ethernet cables and connectors. You can find bulk supplies of ethernet cable at many computer stores or most electrical or home centers. You want UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) ethernet cable of at least Category 5 (Cat 5).

This article was extremely interesting, and it was really relevant to the CMST250 class, especially with the Lab02 being about Ethernet cables. It appears to me that the T568A and T568B could be used interchangeably since the same pins on the RJ45 connector are used for the same things, regardless of the fact that different wires are used within the cables. I wonder if that is the case; do you know, Ashley?

Reading some of these articles, it appears that 100Gbps is becoming common in under ocean cabling systems.

An easy to understand, simplified informative document explaining cabling basics.

The expenses that come with starting up a business facility can be quite large. This is especially true for those needing to install their own fiber optic lines. The process of laying down fiber optic cable from a provider facility to your own is long and expensive.

With the "irrational exuberance" of the early Internet economy, speculators spent billions laying thousands of miles of fiber optic cable for backhaul, expecting Internet use would continue growing at the unprecedented rates of the late 1990s. As part of the great dot com bust of 2000, however, most of the speculators went bust, leaving so-called "dark fiber" to wait for demand to catch up.