Cat 6 Cable Diameter

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Cat 6 cable diameter.

The cable standard specifies performance of up to 250 mhz compared to 100 mhz for cat 5 and cat 5e. That speed comes with a price however as cat 6 cables are more expensive than cat 5 and cat 5e variants. The category 6 augmented cable standard or cat 6a was created to further improve the performance of cat 6 ethernet cables using cat 6a enables 10 gigabit ethernet data rates over a single cable run up to 328 feet. It s theoretical top speed is 10 gbps over 100 meters.

Cat 6 has to meet more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than cat 5 and cat 5e. Cat 6 cables technically support speeds up to 10gbps but only do so for up to 55 meters. It may have double interior pair separators and or a rigid jacket with a gear shaped interior wall to create interior air space and decrease. Comtran cable recently announced that because of improved geometric engineering the company has been able to reduce the size of two of its highest performing unshielded twisted pair cables comtran s category 6 cable as well as its enhanced category 6 cable which it dubs cat 6e and tests to 550 mhz have been reduced in outside diameter.

Category 6 cable cat 6 is a standardized twisted pair cable for ethernet and other network physical layers that is backward compatible with the category 5 5e and category 3 cable standards. The outside diameter of cat6a f utp can be as large as 0 354 compared to 0 265 0 30 for cat6a f utp and 0 21 9 24 for cat6. The cost is about 20 35 higher than cat6 but the maximum cable length is 100 meters across all systems and conditions for gigabit ethernet. Cat 6 supports 10 gigabit ethernet only up to 164 feet of cable length.

Belden offers several category 6 performance levels including our 3600 series with premium performance offering significant headroom and our 2400 cat 6 enhanced system cable.