As Gigabit and 10G Ethernet networks take hold in companies that need more speed, the copper physical layer of cabling has evolved to easily handle future applications. One of the most recent ...

After five years of development, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) recently published its standard for Cat. 6 cabling systems, TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1, addressing the need for a cabling ...

While Cat5e and Cat6 cables look exactly the same from the outside, it is what’s inside that makes the difference. Selecting the best solution for a network system can seem like a daunting task. It is ...

Cabling provider Siemon said data center operators and designers should not insal Category 6 cabling in the data center if they have 10Gb Ethernet in sight, despite endorsements by standards bodies.

Does anyone have any experience or insight on running 10GBASE-T over CAT6 cabling? Our run length will be less then forty feet. According to the spec CAT6 (and not CAT6A) cabling is supported up to ...

Welcome to another in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 20 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. This post ...

Hi folks,<BR><BR>I don't know much about cabling and am trying to figure out if there is some obvious way to distinguish CAT-3 from CAT-5 cabling. We have cables that run through the walls from the ...

Though we’ve never used their cables, [Blue Jeans Cable] out of Seattle, WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Structured cabling has always played a role in LANs and data infrastructure, but only in the last ...