Balun - A Twinax - to RJ45 adapter that allows a twinax signal to run over a CAT3 or CAT5 Cable.  Good for distances of up to 2000 to 2500 feet on a CAT5 cable.  Not restricted to the 300 foot limitation of an Ethernet Signal. One balun is required for each Twinax device that is to be connected to a Twinax-to-RJ45 Active Star Panel.  

Balun - A Twinax - to RJ45 adapter that allows a twinax signal to run over a CAT3 or CAT5 Cable.  Good for distances of up to 2000 to 2500 feet on a CAT5 cable.  Not restricted to the 300 foot limitation of an Ethernet Signal. One balun is required for each Twinax device that is to be connected to a Twinax-to-RJ45 Active Star Panel.  

Standard Twinax Cable - Allows "Daisy Chaining" from one device to the next.  Highly resistant to outside electrical interference.  Good for distances up to 5000 feet. You can combine two standard twinax cables together to get a longer length cable by connecting them with a Twinax Female/Female Connector described below.

Twinax Cable Ends - Each end of a standard twinax cable has two male connectors with two pins that connects to a female twinax connector that is either on an AS/400 or S/36 Twinax Workstation Controller, twinax ports on Remote Controllers, or the Host In port on an Twinax-to-RJ45 Active Star Panel.  You can combine two standard twinax cables together to get a longer length cable by connecting them with a Twinax Female/Female Connector described directly below.

Twinax Female/Female Connector - Used to join two standard male end  twinax cables together to increase length.  Also used to convert a male end of a cable to a female end to allow the attachment of a Balun when a need exist to convert from standard twinax cable to RJ45.  This is required when using twinax star panels or hubs that have female RJ45 ports and the existing cable runs are standard twinax cable.

Twinax Signal - A twinax signal is the signal generated from the twinax port of an IBM AS400, iSeries, S/36, or remote controllers that is sent over cabling to run a twinax display station, twinax printer or other twinax peripheral device.  A twinax signal can be transmitted over a standard twinax cable, CAT3 or CAT5 cables when equipped with Baluns at each end of the cable, or over a fiberoptic cable when using the appropriate twinax-to-fiberoptic converter or twinax-to-fiberoptic multiplexor.