When it comes to choosing the right cable, it can be confusing. There are many cables out there including category 6 cables and category 6a cables. Keep reading to learn what a category 6 cable is and what it is used for.
What is a category 6 cable? Category 6 cables are ethernet cables and are the most popular type of ethernet cable used today.
What are the components of category 6 cables? Category 6 cabling components included twisted pair modular connects as well as cords. Customers use these products primarily in commercial buildings as well as data centers for applications like data, video, and the internet.
Cabling provides robust support for data rates up to 1 gigabyte per second and 100 meters and may even provide support at a higher data rate like 5 gigabytes per second. This depends on the capability of the electronics as well as the environment the products are used in.
There is an enhanced version of category 6 cables called category 6a cabling which provides guaranteed support for data rates up to 10 gigabytes per second and 100 meters.
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