Cable
19 cable entries.
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Standard copper network cable. Cheap, easy to fit a plug on, your default for short runs in the garage.
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Short-range glass fibre. You add the plug-in optics yourself. The first fibre most people handle.
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Better short-range glass fibre. Same shape, longer reach at the same speed.
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The current short-range glass fibre. Built to carry several colors of light at once — more traffic down the same strand.
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Long-range glass fibre. The long-haul stuff — between buildings, between facilities, between cities.
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Long-range glass fibre rated for four-hundred-gig. The far-reaching end of the backbone network.
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A power cable. Connects the rack's power strip to the gear. Boring, essential.
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Forty-gig powered fibre. Reaches across rows to link the middle-layer switches, with the optics built in.
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Forty-gig copper. Chunky and short — links a switch into the next layer up.
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Four-hundred-gig powered fibre. The cable for backbone links that span rows.
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Four-hundred-gig copper. The fastest short copper cable made. Anything longer or faster goes to fibre.
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Hundred-gig powered fibre. Reaches across rows with the optics built in.
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Hundred-gig copper. Short, thick, expensive. Used between middle-layer switches in the same rack.
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Two-hundred-gig powered fibre. Modern rack-switch-to-backbone link across rows — same speed as the copper version, much farther reach.
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Two-hundred-gig copper. Modern rack-switch-to-backbone link. Even thicker than the hundred-gig and even shorter.
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Powered fibre ten-gig cable. Glass inside, the optics built into each plug. Reaches farther than the short copper cable; lighter and bendier.
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Short ten-gig copper cable with fixed connectors on both ends. The cheap intra-rack default — passive runs ~3m, active up to ~15m.
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Powered fibre twenty-five-gig cable. The bendier, longer-reach step above the twenty-five-gig copper cable.
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Same shape as the ten-gig short cable, but twenty-five-gig. The faster upgrade — passive ~3m, active ~15m.