Cat 6 has to meet more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than cat 5 and cat 5e.
Cat 6 outside diameter.
Standard commercial category 6 cables will allow moisture to ingress into the cable causing it to fail in wet areas.
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.
Specifications utp cat 6 cable db 100 ft 30 48 m db 100 m 328 ft mhz 14 pf ft 46 pf m nominal capacit ance nominal attenuation 100 ohms 15 ohms 68 insula tion bend radius nominal velocity of propa gation 0 90 2 3 cm time delay 46 lbs 20 9 kg per 1000 ft 304 8 m shipping weight per standardcoverage length awg diameter stranding.
34 increase in power due to lower insertion loss characteristics at 100 mhz and greater than 50 at 250 mhz than category 6.
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.
Cat 6 cat 5 or cat 5e ethernet cables can be run outdoors to network computers with a large area network lan between homes or other buildings.
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.
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.
7 db minimum improvement in near end crosstalk vs.
Cat6a utp cable design differs among manufacturers.
Every level exceeds tia 568 c 2 s performance and are produced with belden s superior quality.
Category 6 indoor outdoor cm ls cable is designed for use outdoors in duct and aerial lashing as well as in wet locations indoors.
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.
Cat 6 supports 10 gigabit ethernet only up to 164 feet of cable length.
Cat 6 utp outdoor pe jacket uv rated with messenger 4 pair 23 awg 550 mhz.
33 db minimum acr 100 mhz and positive acr to 460 mhz.