Siemens X-400 - Manual (Page 94)

Installation and Commissioning
Operating Instructions for SCALANCE X-400 Industrial Ethernet Switches
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6.6.5 Connectors for the Twisted Pair Cables
The FastConnect Cabling System
With the IE FC RJ-45 Plug and the FastConnect cables (FC), you can achieve a
segment length up to 100 m without patching. In this case, the IE FC standard ca-
ble 2x2 is connected directly to the SCALANCE X414-3E and other components
on the network.
Two FastConnect cable types are available, the eight-wire IE FC standard cable
4x2 and the four-wire IE FC standard cable 2x2.
The diameter of the IE FC standard cable 4x2 does not allow connection to an RJ-
45 plug so that only the IE FC standard cable 2x2 as a four-wire cable is suitable
for RJ-45 plugs. This means that the maximum transmission rate is 100 Mbps.
The flexible eight-wire patch cable (TP cord) for gigabit transmission allows a maxi-
mum cable length of 10 m.
X 2 0 8
S 7 - 4 0 0
X 4 1 4 - 3 E
B A B
B
B
P C
A = 1 0 m
B = 1 0 0 m
Figure 6-13 FastConnect Cabling
A TP cord (1 Gbps)
B IE FC Standard Cable 2x2 (100 Mbps)