Cat6 Cable Conductor 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.

Cat6 cable conductor diameter. Cable s gauge indicates the thickness of the conductor in which the electrons flow. A 23awg cable is 0 57mm wide while a 24awg cable is 0 52mm wide. The a stands for augmented and is a nod to cat6a s improved specifications compared with its predecessor the category 6 or cat6 cable. Cat 6 has to meet more stringent specifications for crosstalk and system noise than cat 5 and cat 5e.

In your search for ethernet cable you may have noticed thin versions of cat5e cat6 and cat6a cables. The cat6a doubles data transmission bandwidth from 250 to 500 mhz. And provides superior reliability and transmission. Notice the lower the gauge the higher the thickness.

Both cables are made with 23 awg solid bare copper conductors. Unshielded twisted pair utp cable type. The cat 6e 550mhz plenum rated cable now has a 0 200 inch od and the riser rated version has a 0 215 inch od. 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.

Bulk cable cat 6. Every level exceeds tia 568 c 2 s performance and are produced with belden s superior quality. Cat6a utp cable design differs among manufacturers. The category 6a or cat6a cable is the latest iteration of gigabit ethernet cabling.

Commonly constructed of 28 awg wire these slim ethernet cables can be more than 25 smaller in diameter than their full size counterparts. 100 15ω 1 550mhz. To reduce resistance and allow for a better flow of electrons the diameter of the cable s conductor must be increased. 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.

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. The copper conductors have a higher awg size remember a larger gauge means thinner wire reducing the overall outside diameter od of the cable. Cat6a utp is significantly larger than cat6 and cat6a f utp cable because it is designed with more interior space between the pairs to minimize anext. The cable standard specifies performance of up to 250 mhz compared to 100 mhz for cat 5 and cat 5e.

Decreases the chance of crosstalk interference.