Physical Media:
1. Coaxial cables:
Ethernet based LANs using thick cable for inter-connection is referred
as Thicknet. While ethernet systems using thinner coaxial cable is referred as
Thinnet.
Thicknet is also referred as 10Base5 systems, where 10 means 10Mbps speed. Base
means baseband and 5 denotes 500 meter max. distance between nodes/repeaters.
RG-8/U cable is used as thick cable in thicknet based LAN network.
Thinnet is also referred as 10Base2, where 2 denotes 200 m max.distance between
two nodes/repeaters. RG-58/U is used as thin cable in thinnet based LAN
network.
