Seeking Xylogics/Bay/Nortel fanout cables

On Sun, 14 Oct 2012, Dennis Boone wrote: Do the cables include the ring-indicate signal? Since they are using DB-25 connectors I'd guess they probably do. If not, or if the RI signal isn't needed, an easy way to fabricate these would be to terminate 6x unshielded 8-conductor flat cables with 8P8C connectors. Shielded flat cable is available too, but it would be slightly more expensive. Another option would be shielded UTP/Cat5, but since nearly all of the shielded UTP cable is solid conductor, you'd have to make sure to use 8P8C plugs that are specifically made for solid conductor cables. You could also do the same thing with 10-conductor flat cord and 10P10C connectors and pin them out like Digi did so that they could also be used with 8P8C terminated cables and adapters. Unshielded CHAMP connectors are pretty cheap, but the tooling to install them is expensive. There are quite a number of options, the only problems most people are going to run up against is the tooling cost and minimum quantities on the connectors and cable.