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Article #959Can ethernet use branched cable?
From: Roy Smith
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1986 01:09
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1986 01:09
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Is there any reason why an ethernet (thin or thick) cable can't be
branched? All the diagrams I see only show linear layouts with taps off
the main line. Will the following work? We plan on some extra runs that
don't have anything on them (yet); thus the branch with just a terminator.
Assuming these branches are legal at all, should the ends have just dust
caps instead of terminators?
*=======T========T===========T============X======X====*
| | | # #
3/50--+ * +---3/50 etc #
| 3/50---+ #
+---3/50 +---3/50 3/180
| |
* *
Key: * 50-Ohm terminator + BNC-tee connector
= Thick cable | Thin cable
X Ethernet tranceiver T N-tee connector with BNC adapter
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Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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