The Benefits Of Using Catergory 6 Cable
Networks are able to produce higher bandwidths with the introduction of Category 6 (cat 6). Like category 5 (cat 5), Cat 6 Network Cable is made up of four twisted pairs of copper wire. Category 6 operates at 200 MHz as compared to 100 MHz category 5 cables. Category 6 supports 10 Gb/s Ethernet as opposed to the 100 Mb/s ethernet for category 5. Cat 6 cable is suitable for use with several different types of networking. Some examples would be 10Base-T and 10GBase-T.
A benefit of using the Cat 6 Network Cable is that the near end cross talk (NEXT) and the far end cross talk (FEXT) have been greatly improved. Twisted pairs normally running parallel with one another can create cross talk. Since cat 6 cable has more twist than cat 5 cable it produces less noise and has fewer data packet drops which cause the need for retransmissions. Another improvement with the cat 6 cable over the cat 5 cable is the signal to noise ratio is better. The high the ratio means that less noise is able to corrupt the transmission signal.
Category 6 network cable has a benefit that previous versions did not have the capability to do. Backward compatibility was introduced with cat 6 to allow its use with cat 5 and cat 3 cables. Cat 6 Network Cable does have some limitations. It is limited to a maximum of 100 meters when used with 10/100/1000Base-T. If a 10GBase-T network were desired then the maximum length allowed would be 55 meters.
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Cat 5e is barely able to meet the requirements of the applications that run at 1 gigabit per second. Cat 6 Network Cable delivers a higher bandwidth thus it is able to accommodate the increase in demand for faster data rates. New applications and multimedia will become more advanced and require the advantages that Cat 6 can provide. Cat 6 is more reliable since it has a greater transmission performance and is able to eliminate more noise. Category 6 cable can be used in residential settings. It can be used with computers, televisions and Blu-ray players since the newer models require a higher date transfer rate. |
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