Morris 40122 RJ22 Hand Cord Set Modular Plugs (Pack of 10)

hello everyone it's steve the nortel guy i'm going to talk about the difference between the major connectors that are used in voice communications and also data communications so what you're looking at right here is two patch chords um or data chords or line chords they go by different terms and one is an rj11 and one is an rj45 so let's talk about the biggest one and we'll work our way down so this guy right here is what we call an rj45 sorry i'm trying to get this to focus here and um an rj45 is about one centimeter across and it typically see if i get this to focus for you better it typically has eight pins eight gold pins across the front see that okay these were primarily used for computer connections for ethernet connections um although today they're being more used for different things like sometimes used to connect phones like for instance that avaya phone over there it uses an