Utp Cross Cable Configuration
Using the 568 b standard as an example below you will see that pin 1 on connector a goes to pin 3 on connector b.
Utp cross cable configuration. An ethernet crossover cable is a crossover cable for ethernet used to connect computing devices together directly. One end uses the t568a wiring standard and the other end uses the t568b wiring standard. Two computers via their network interface controllers or two switches to each other by contrast patch cables or straight through cables are used to connect devices of different types such as a computer to a. Crossover wired cables commonly called crossover cables are very much like straight through cables with the exception that tx and rx lines are crossed they are at opposite positions on either end of the cable.
It is most often used to connect two devices of the same type e g. A crossover ethernet cable is a type of ethernet cable used to connect computing devices together directly. Unlike straight through cable the rj45 crossover cable uses two different wiring standards. These cables were created to support temporary host to host networking in situations where an intermediate device such as a network router is not present crossover cables look almost identical to ordinary straight through or patch ethernet cables but the internal wiring.
Utp cables are terminated with standard connectors jacks and punchdowns. Pin 2 on connector.