Cat5 cables were the best option for wired networking (also called Ethernet) for a long time. But since the release of Cat6, that's changed. Cat6 is now considered the minimum standard for networking, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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If you are cabling for 1000BT, you want CAT5e at a minimum. CAT 5 does not do gigabit as part of the spec. CAT6 just gives you more bandwidth, but there are no Ethernet standards that require it yet.

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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 ...

The mini CAT6 copper trunk bundle has an outer diameter of 0.62 inches, down from its original size of 1.2 inches. The copper trunk breakout legs have a diameter of 0.148 inches, reduced from 0.29 ...