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Posted by Heinz-Gerd Schlagregen on July 10, 2007, 1:37 pm
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Hi John,
both relate to exactly the same specification EIA/TIA-568B. It makes no
difference at all whether you write it in lower case or in a capital letter.
In other words, I have never seen a different specification for these
writings.
Heinz Schlagregen
Technical Instructor
Germany
> John Sherling wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone:
>
> > I was recently told to purchase an ethernet cable for our 10/100/1000
> > switched LAN, and was specifically asked to get a CAT5E (capital e),
> > and not a CAT5e (lower case e). An A/V engineer who I generally respect
> > is the one who suggested this, but I'd always thought they were about
> > the same.
> > Can anyone say for sure whether or not there's a difference between
> > lower and upercase e?
>
> Absolutely positively the same cable. He probably wanted to emphasize the
> fact that he wanted a decent CAT5E cable, not the
> "everything-one-dollar-store" variety. Just my wild guess.
>
>
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