... surrounded by an overall jacket. Although available in 2-, 4-, and25-pair multiples, the most popular choice is 4-pair cabling. Although most LAN environ-ments, such as 10/100 Base-T, only use ... pair-to-pairnear-end/far-end crosstalk isolation tooperate properly.Multipair UsageTypical networks only utilize 2 of the 4 pairsavailable. Bandwidth can be significantlyincreased by utilizing ... jacketfrom the insulated pairs by employing a“loose-tube” construction. Additionally, itis also known that attenuation in copper-based UTP cabling increases with fre-quency. For instance, attenuation...