Cat 6 Cable Diameter

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.

Cat 6 cable diameter.

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. Cat 6 supports 10 gigabit ethernet only up to 164 feet of cable length. Cat6a utp cable design differs among manufacturers. Cat 6 has to meet more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than cat 5 and cat 5e.

It s theoretical top speed is 10 gbps over 100 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. 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.

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. Cat 6 cables technically support speeds up to 10gbps but only do so for up to 55 meters. Every level exceeds tia 568 c 2 s performance and are produced with belden s superior quality. 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 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.