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than required, which determines whether additional consideration is needed. If the power budget is
exceeded or margin is insufficient, you can either use a transceiver rated for longer distance
operation, or calculate budget and losses using actual values rather than specified limit values.
Either method can improve the link budget by 4 to 5 dB or more.
10/100BASE-X and 1000BASE-TX reach
The following table lists maximum transmission distances for 10/100BASE-X and 1000BASE-TX
Ethernet cables.
Table 12: Maximum cable distances
10BASE-T 100BASE-TX 1000BASE-TX
IEEE standard 802.3 Clause 14 802.3 Clause 21 802.3 Clause 40
Data rate 10 Mbps 100 Mbps 1000 Mbps
Cat 5 UTP distance 100 m 100 m 100 Ω, 4 pair: 100
m
10/100/1000BASE-TX Auto-Negotiation recommendations
Auto-Negotiation lets devices share a link and automatically configures both devices so that they
take maximum advantage of their abilities. Auto-Negotiation uses a modified 10BASE-T link integrity
test pulse sequence to determine device ability.
The Auto-Negotiation feature allows the devices to switch between the various operational modes in
an ordered fashion and allows management to select a specific operational mode. The Auto-
Negotiation feature also provides a parallel detection (also called autosensing) function to allow the
recognition of 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-T4, and 1000BASE-TX compatible devices,
even if they do not support Auto-Negotiation. In this case, only the link speed is sensed; not the
duplex mode. Avaya recommends the Auto-Negotiation configuration as shown in the following
table, where A and B are two Ethernet devices.
Table 13: Recommended Auto-Negotiation configuration on 10/100/1000BASE-TX ports
Port on A Port on B Remarks Recommendations
Auto-Negotiation
enabled
Auto-Negotiation
enabled
Ports negotiate on highest
supported mode on both
sides.
Avaya recommends that
you use this configuration if
both ports support Auto-
Negotiation mode.
Full-duplex Full-duplex Both sides require the same
mode.
Avaya recommends that
you use this configuration if
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