STP CAT5e STP uses a covering around the pairs of wires inside the cable that protects it from electromagnetic interference caused by electrical motors, transmitters, or high tension lines. It is more expensive than UTP cabling so it's only used when the situation demands it.
STP CAT5e STP uses a covering around the pairs of wires inside the cable that protects it from electromagnetic interference caused by electrical motors, transmitters, or high tension lines. It is more expensive than UTP cabling so it's only used when the situation demands it.
UTP is unshielded. Cheaper. STP is shielded.. more expensive.
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Cat5e is required for the standard for gigabit ethernet; cat5 is only good for up to 100Mbps. Cat6 is better than cat5e; it will probably give you lower signal degradation over longer distances and less interference from external sources, which can improve speed and quality of connections. You could run gigabit ethernet over normal cat5, but the standard makes no promises about how well it will work. Cat5e and cat6 differ from cat5 in having more twists per inch, which reduces interference at the cost of using more copper.
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Difference between a cat 5 5e and 6 networking cable? Cat5 cable is broken into two separate categories: Cat5 and Cat5E cables. Cat5 has become obsolete in recent years, due to its limitations compared to Cat5E and Cat6 cables. Although the Cat5 cable can handle up to 10/100 Mbps at a 100MHz bandwidth (which was once considered quite efficient), the newer versions of Cat cables are significantly faster. Cat5E cable (which stands for "Cat5 Enhanced") became the standard cable about 15 years ago and offers significantly improved performance over the old Cat5 cable, including up to 10 times faster speeds and a significantly greater ability to traverse distances. Cat6 cables have been around for only a few years less than Cat5E cables. However, they have primarily been used as the backbone to networks, instead of being run to workstations themselves. The reason for this (beyond cost) is the fact that, while Cat6 cables can handle up to 10 Gigabits of data, that bandwidth is limited to 164 feet - anything beyond that will rapidly decay to only 1 Gigabit (the same as Cat5E). Cat6A is the newest iteration and utilizes an exceptionally thick plastic casing that helps further reduce crosstalk. The biggest distinguishing difference between Cat6 and Cat6A cables is that Cat6A can maintain 10 Gigabit speeds for the full 328 feet of Ethernet cable.
CAT5 is an Ethernet cable standard defined by the Electronic Industries Association and Telecommunications Industry Association (commonly known as EIA/TIA). CAT5 is the 5th generation of twisted pair Ethernet cabling and the most popular of all twisted pair cables in use today. CAT5 cable contains four pairs of copper wire. CAT5 supports Fast (100 Mbps) Ethernet and comparable alternatives such as ATM. As with all other types of twisted pair EIA/TIA cabling, CAT5 cable runs are limited to a maximum recommended run rate of 100m (328 feet). Although CAT5 cable usually contains four pairs of copper wire, Fast Ethernet communications only utilize two pairs. A new specification for CAT5 cable, CAT5 enhanced (CAT5e), supports short-run Gigabit Ethernet (1000 Mbps) networking by utilizing all four wire pairs and is backward-compatible with ordinary CAT5. Twisted pair cable like CAT5 comes in two main varieties, solid and stranded. Solid CAT5 cable supports longer runs and works best in fixed wiring configurations like office buildings. Stranded CAT5 cable, on the other hand, is more pliable and better suited for shorter-distance, movable cabling such as on-the-fly "patch" cabling.
Today's standards use Cat5 cable. Cat6 is newest but more expensive and harder to install.
A cat5e should work up to 1 gig. Cat6 is optimal but more expensive and harder to wire.
Fiber optic cabling is rarely seen in typical networking implementations for small to medium-sized businesses due to its higher cost and complexity compared to more common options like Ethernet cabling (e.g., Cat5e, Cat6). While fiber optics provides superior speed and bandwidth over long distances, many organizations opt for copper cabling for ease of installation and maintenance. However, fiber is increasingly used in data centers and high-performance environments where speed and distance are critical.
If it's the common "CAT5", "CAT5e" or "CAT6", it's around 1/4 inch thick, blue, grey or purple jacket, and slightly bumpy due to the four pairs of twisted wires inside the jacket. The connectors are most likely the rectangular clear plastic plugs known (incorrectly) as RJ45, and correctly as 8P8C, fitted to the cable with a special crimping tool, die tool. The cable can be solid-core (cheaper, only suitable for wired-in cabling) or stranded (more expensive, suitable for patch cables and panel-to-computer cables). When fitting connectors, be sure to use the correct ones (for solid core or stranded core).
The standard connector for Ethernet cable is called the RJ45 by everybody. The fact this not actually and RJ45 but is in fact a 8P8C in irrelevant to common usage. cat5, cat5e, and cat6 are common specifications for unshielded twisted pair used in Ethernet cabling. Cat5e is useful for distances of up to 100 meters ( you can get a bit more distance out of it) and speeds of up to 1gigabit per second. While cat6 can handle speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second there is no real use for cat6 outside of data centers or as backbone in large environments as the 10Gb equipment is frightfully expensive and a very very fast internet connection of 20 megabits per second is 500 times slower. This is probably too much information but there you go. f:)