RJ-45
(
Registered
Jack-
45) A telephone connector that holds up to eight wires. RJ-45 plugs and sockets are used in Ethernet and Token Ring Type 3 devices. See
RJ-48.
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| RJ-45 Connectors |
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| Eight-wire RJ-45 connectors are used with Ethernet and Type 3 Token Ring networks. |
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| Variations of RJ-45 |
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| These are the variations of RJ-45 pins and wire colors. |
| (hardware) | RJ-45 - A serial connector which looks very much like a
standard telephone connector, except it houses eight wires
instead of four.
RJ-45s are typically found on computers either integrated
into the mother board or on a NIC. Because they are so
small they are often used on devices such as terminal servers that have many ports.
Ethernet (10baseT) and Token Ring sometimes use four
wires of an RJ-45 plug, 100baseVG uses all eight.
100BaseTX uses the same four wires of the RJ-45 connector as
10baseT but the wire must be category 5 instead of category 3.
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