Trunk and drop line lengths

Suggested maximum lengths of trunklines and droplines

baud rate	max. trunk line length	max. drop line lenght	max. lenght of all drop lines	max. drop line lenght at multiport tap	max. lenght of trunklines with multiport tap (without droplines)
50 kbit/s	1000 m	50 m	250 m	-	-
125 kbit/s	500 m	20 m	100 m	4,8 m	310 m
250 kbit/s	250 m	10 m	50 m	2,4 m	120 m
500 kbit/s	100 m	5 m	25 m	1,2 m	66 m
1 Mbit/s	20 m	1 m	5 m	0,3 m	13 m

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