Common types of cables and fibers avalible for local links
Cable | Typic Bandwidths and Distances |
Catergory 5 twisted pair | 10-100Mbps, 100 m |
50-ohm coax (ThinNet) | 10-100Mbps, 200 m |
75-ohm coax (ThickNet) | 10-100Mbps, 500 m |
Multimode fiber | 100 Mbps, 2 km |
Single-mode filber | 100-2400Mbps, 40km |
Stallings, William (1988). Data and Computer Communications New York: MacMillan Publishing Co.