However, since they both use the same pinout at the connectors you can mix 568A and 568B cables in any installation. 10baseT Straight Cable (PC to HUB/SWITCH) Straight cables are used to connect PCs or other equipment to a HUB or Switch. If your connection is PC to PC or HUB to HUB...
Figure 6.6: 10BASE-T pinout and hub attachment. When a hub has a port labeled MDI/MDIX, this port may be switched so it acts like a endstation, which facilitates the chaining of one hub to another using a straight-through patch cable. Another way to interconnect two hubs (when one of ...
Cable Diagnostic to Identify Faulty Copper Cabling • Signal Quality Indication • Parametric NAND Tree Support to Detect Faults Between Chip I/Os and Board • Loopback Modes for Diagnostics • Automatic MDI/MDI-X Crossover to Detect and Correct Pair Swap at All Speeds of Operation • ...