10Base5
The original IEEE 10 Mbps Ethernet standard which used a bus topology comprising a thick coaxial cable. Network nodes attached via an "AUI interface" to transceivers that tapped into the bus. Also called "thick Ethernet," "ThickWire" and "ThickNet," 10Base5 had a distance limit of 1,640 feet without repeaters. See
Ethernet.
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| 10Base5 "Thick" Ethernet |
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| The first Ethernet used a bus topology, which was a common coaxial cable that ran by every node. Transceivers, which connected to the nodes via 15-pin AUI sockets, typically used a "vampire" tap to "bite" into the coax bus. |
| (networking) | 10base5 - An Ethernet network cabling specification
operating at ten Mbps, "baseband" (as opposed to radio frequency), and with a maximum single cable length of 500
metres. This is normally carried on RG8 cable.
Compare 10base2, 10baseT. | |