Front-Panel Description
100BASE-FX Ports
100BASE-LX Ports
Power and Relay Connector
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The 100BASE-FX ports on the Catalyst 2955C-12 use 50/125- or
62.5/125-micron MM fiber-optic cabling. In full-duplex mode, the MM
fiber-optic cable length from a switch to an attached device cannot exceed
6562 feet (2 kilometers).
For MM connections, you can connect a 100BASE-FX port to a port on a target
device by using one of the MT-RJ fiber-optic patch cables listed in
page
B-3. Use the Cisco part numbers in
you need.
The 100BASE-LX ports on the Catalyst 2955S-12 use 9/125-micron SM
fiber-optic cabling. The cable length from a switch to an attached device cannot
exceed 9.375 miles (15 kilometers).
For SM connections, use one of the connectors listed in
Use the Cisco part numbers in
The power and relay connector provides wire connections to the switch for DC
power and configurable alarms (see
is to the right of the uplink ports on the faceplate.
Figure 2-6
Power and Relay Connector
Table B-1
to order the patch cables that
Table B-2
to order the connectors that you need.
Figure
2-6). The power and relay connector
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Table B-1 on
Table B-2 on page
B-4.
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