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What technologies use CAT3 cabling?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

In the 1990s CAT3 was used in 10BASE-T Ethernet, token ring and ATM25 networks. It was also used in 100BASE-T4 Ethernet technologies which employed all 4 pairs to achieve greater bandwidth. CAT3 has been superseded and is seldom used today, but it still has uses in telephone wiring.

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