Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject: CAT-5
Cable Infrastructure
Category-5 Data Cable
Category-5 cable is the most commonly used type of cable in station cabling. This type of cable gets its name from the number of twists per inch in the pairs of the cable, meaning there are five twists per inch in the pairs of the cable. This twisting of pairs enables the cable, which is made of copper; to transmit data at much higher speeds than would be possible without them. This twisted copper cable is capable of transmission speeds of 100MBPS (millions of bytes per second) or more. Use of this type of cable is usually to connect individual workstations throughout a building to the network. It does this by transmitting low voltage signals from the workstation through the cable to the data switch and into the company's server. Once in place these cables will allow users to share resources and printers on a network with higher speed connections than would be possible with standard CAT-3 twisted pair telephone wire.
Category-5e Data Cable - Category 5e allows for the transportation of frequencies up to 100 MHz. CAT 5e components have better transmission performance characteristics than CAT 5 and are most suitable for use in high-speed Gigabit Ethernets. Category 5e is quickly emerging as the standard for today's multi-service LAN infrastructures.
Key Benefits
Station to station, station to server connectivity
High-speed data transmission
Fast link from Gigabit Fiber Backbone to Workstation
Cost of cable is relatively inexpensive
Provides strong station to station, station to server connection to high speed
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