The BASE is short for baseband signalling as opposed to broadband, and the 5 stands for the maximum segment length of 500 metres.
10BASE5cable is designed to allow transceivers to be added while existing connections are live.
This distance roughly corresponds to the wavelength of the signal.
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10BASE5 (also known as thicknet) is the original "full spec" variant of Ethernetcable, using a stiff, large diameter coaxialcable with an impedance of 50 ohms and with multiple shielding.The outer sheath is often yellow polyvinyl chloride so itfrequently is just called "yellow cable".
The BASE is short for baseband signalling asopposed to radio frequency, and the 5 stands for the maximumsegment length of 500 metres.
10BASE5cable is designed to allow transceivers to be added while existingconnections are live.
The metre (Commonwealth English) or meter (American English) (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length.
10BASE5 (also known as thicknet) is the original "full spec" variant of (A type of networking technology for local area networks; coaxialcable carries radio frequency signals between computers at a rate of 10 megabits per second) Ethernetcable, using RG-8 (Radio Grade - 8) (A transmission line for high-frequency signals) coaxialcable.
A stiff, large diameter cable with an impedance of 50 (A unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere) ohms and with multiple shielding.
10base5 (also known as thicknet) is the original "full spec" variant of Ethernetcable, using a stiff, large diameter coaxialcable with an impedance of 50 ohms and with multiple shielding.
The outer sheath is usually yellow so it is often just called "yellow cable".
The "10" means 10 Mbps, "base" means baseband as opposed to radio frequency and "5" means a maximum single cable length of 500 metres.
One end of the drop-cable is attached to the AUI port on the transceiver of the Vampire Tap and the other to the AUI port on the Ethernet adapter.
The segment length of the 10Base5 network should not exceed 500 meters in length.
Large 10Base5 networks exceeding 500 meters are broken into segments (not exceeding 500 meters) and are coupled together using repeaters (with a maximum of 4 repeaters).
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The name derives from the fact that the maximum data transfer speed is 10 Mbps, it uses baseband transmission, and the maximum length of cables is 500 meters.
10Base5 is also called thick Ethernet, ThickWire, and ThickNet.
Also see the Ethernet Designations chart in the Quick Reference section of Webopedia.
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StarLAN 1 -- The first implementation of Ethernet on twisted pair wiring.
10BASE5 (also called Thickwire or Yellow Cable) -- this is the original 10Mbit/s implementation of Ethernet.
The early IEEE standard uses a single coaxialcable into which you literally tapped by fixing a so called "vampire" transceiver to the cable, which attached itself by drilling into the cable to connect to the core and screen.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) :
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.
