Rollover Network Cable

Rollover cables like other cabling types got their name from how they are wired.

Rollover network cable.

Pin 2 of connector a would be connected to pin 7 of connector b and so on. Rollover wired cables most commonly called rollover cables have opposite pin assignments on each end of the cable or in other words it is rolled over pin 1 of connector a would be connected to pin 8 of connector b. However there is still something that both crossover and straight through cables can t do. The distinction between a straight through crossover and rollover cable comes down to the way that the connectors on each end are wired.

This cable is typically flat and has a light blue color to help distinguish it from other types of network cabling. Others provide support for both types of cables. The first wire connected to the first pin on one end is the same color as the wire attached to the last pin on the opposite end. These cables were created to support temporary host to host networking in situations where an intermediate device such as a network router is not present crossover cables look almost identical to ordinary straight through or patch ethernet cables but the internal wiring.

Rollover cable also known as a yost cable cisco cable or a console cable is a type of null modem cable that is often used to connect a computer terminal to a router s console port. A network cable with wires that are rolled over and reversed in sequence on each end is called a rollover cable. A utp cable contains eight wires. What we conventionally know as a network cable is an 802 3 specified cable for ethernet networks.

An ethernet crossover cable also known as a crossed cable connects two ethernet network devices to each other. Rollover cables essentially have one end of the cable wired exactly opposite from the other.