Cable interconnecting Cat. 3550 and 3560

[johanverhoeven]

What would be an appropiate cable connecting the 3550 catalyst and the 3560?

3550 has 2 gbic ports, while the 3560 has 4 spf module slots.

[pkhatri]

Hi

You will need an LC-to-SC fibre-optic cable.

The LC end is for the SFP and the SC-end is for the GBIC. However, you need to know what sort of GBICs/SFPs you are using - single-mode or multimode, since the cable type depends on that...There are also different cables for LX and SX transceivers.

Hope that helps - pls rate posts that help.

Regards,

Paresh

[bhedlund]

Adding to the previous post:

LX transcievers will work with both single-mode and multi-mode fiber cable.

SX transcievers will work with only multi-mode fiber cable.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/dsl_prod/6400/hardnote/nrp2gbic.pdf

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Thanks,

Brad

[paulush]

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