Cat 1 (Category 1)

A type of cabling that is specified in ANSI/ICEA S-80-576 and ANSI/ICEA S-

91-661, but is not recognized in either the EIA/TIA or ISO/IEC standards. Cat 1 is obsolete in telecommunications applications, but much remains in place in applications such as POTS and ISDN BRI telco local loops, analog PBX and key telephone systems, inside wire and cable systems, low speed data cables (e.g., RS-232 and RS-422), alarm cabling, and audio speaker wire. Cat 1 runs over unshielded twisted pair (UTP) of unspecified gauge and is rated at less than 1 MHz, but typically supports bandwidth less than 100 kHz. In ISO/IEC 11801 terms, Cat 1 variously falls into Class A (≤ 100 kHz) and Class B (≤ 1 MHz).

See also bandwidth, gauge, ISDN BRI, POTS, and UTP.

• North American Numbering Plan (NANP)
• North American Time Division Multiple Access (NA-TDMA)
• NOS (Network Operating System)
• notation
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• Novel Services)
• NPAC (Number Portability Administration Center)
• NPA (Numbering Plan Administration)
• N-PCS (Narrowband Personal Communications Services)
• NREN (National Research and Education Network)
• nrt
• nrt-VBR (non real-time Variable Bit Rate)
• NRZ (Non-Return-to-Zero)
• NSF (National Science Foundation)
• NT1 (Network Termination 1)
• NT1 (Network Termination 1)
• NT2 (Network Termination 2)
• NT2 (Network Termination 2)
• NTACS (Narrowband Total Access Communications System)
• NTIA
• NT (Network Termination)
• NTSC (National Television Standards Committee)
• null
• null modem
• numbering plan administration (NPA)