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APPENDIX: Cable Pinning/Pairing
Appendix: Cable Pinning/Pairing
The cable you will use to interconnect the Local and Remote Units of your
ServSwitch™ Brand CAT5 KVM Micro Extender should be terminated with RJ-45
plugs and should be wired according to the EIA/TIA-568 standard (preferably
568B rather than 568A). See Section 4.2.5 for a more complete set of cable
recommendations.
Looking into the interconnect socket on either Micro Extender Unit, or looking
at the cable plug from behind, Pin 1 should be on the left and Pin 8 on the right,
and the wires should be arranged this way:
Pin Color Function, Pair
1 White/Orange TX, Pair 2
2 Orange/White RX, Pair 2
3 White/Green TX, Pair 3
4 Blue/White RX, Pair 1
5 White/Blue TX, Pair 1
6 Green/White RX, Pair 3
7 White/Brown TX, Pair 4
8 Brown/White RX, Pair 4
NOTES
The Micro Extender has been tested with all major makes of CAT5 cable
including Black Box, Berk-Tek
™
, Mohawk
®
, and AT&T
®
. The Extender has
also been tested and found to work, in certain situations, with 4-pair
Category 3 cable or with four pairs of 25-pair UTP trunk cables instead
of 4-pair Category 5 cable. But we do not recommend such installations;
if you want to experiment with them, do so at your own risk.
We don’t recommend using CAT5e cable, but it might work in some
applications. Avoid using cables rated “Level 6,” “Level 7,” etc.