Category 5 cable

Category 5 cable, commonly known as Cat 5, is a twisted pair cable type designed for high signal integrity. Many such cables are unshielded but some are shielded. Category 5 has been superseded by the Category 5e specification. This type of cable is often used in structured cabling for computer networks such as Ethernet, and is also used to carry many other signals such as basic voice services, token ring, and ATM (at up to 155 Mbit/s, over short distances).

Usage and wiring methods

Advantages over Category 3 UTP for 100base-T 100base-T is the most popular form of Ethernet for new installations in 2008.Category 5 cable supports run lengths of up to 100m, while category 3 cable is limited to 75m. References See also * Category 6 cable Wikimedia Foundation. 2010. Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР Hydraulic fill Washington County, New York Look at other dictionaries: Category 6 cable — Category 6 cable, commonly referred to as Cat 6, is a cable standard for Gigabit Ethernet and other network protocols that is backward compatible with the Category 5/5e and Category 3 cable standards. Cat 6 features more stringent specifications… …   Wikipedia Category 3 cable — Category 3 cable, commonly known as Cat 3, is an unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable designed to reliably carry data up to 10 Mbit/s, with a possible bandwidth of 16 MHz. It is part of a family of copper cabling standards defined jointly by the… …   Wikipedia Category 7 cable — (CAT7), (ISO/IEC 11801:2002 category 7/class F), is a cable standard for Ethernet and other interconnect technologies that can be made to be backwards compatible with traditional CAT5 and CAT6 Ethernet cable. CAT7 features even more strict… …   Wikipedia Category 2 cable — Category 2 cable, or simply Cat 2, is a misnomer, probably adopted by those who assumed that TIA set up Categories for all types of cables originally defined by Anixter, the distributor, under the grades called Levels. TIA 568 only recognized… …   Wikipedia Category 1 cable — (Cat 1) a.k.a. voice grade copper is a misnomer, probably adopted by those who assumed that TIA set up Categories for all types of cables originally defined by Anixter, the distributor, under the grades called Levels. TIA 568 only recognized… …   Wikipedia Category 4 cable — Category 4 is a description of a cable that consists of four unshielded twisted pair (UTP) wires with a data rate of 16 Mbit/s and performance of up to 20 MHz. It was used in token ring networks, 10BASE T, 100BASE T4, and is no longer common or… …   Wikipedia Category 6 cable — …   Википедия Category 5 cable — …   Википедия Câble catégorie 7 — Category 7 cable Le câble catégorie 7 de classe 7 est spécifié par la norme ISO/IEC 11801:2002 qui est relative au câblage de type Ethernet. Celui ci est rétrocompatible avec les câbles catégorie 5 et 6 et permet la transmission de données à des… …   Wikipédia en Français Cable de categoría 6 — Cable de categoría 6, o Cat 6 (ANSI/TIA/EIA 568 B.2 1) es un estándar de cables para Gigabit Ethernet y otros protocolos de redes que es retrocompatible con los estándares de categoría 5/5e y categoría 3. La categoría 6 posee características y… …   Wikipedia Español 18+ © Academic, 2000-2024 Contact us: Technical Support, Advertising Dictionaries export, created on PHP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MODx. Mark and share Search through all dictionaries Translate… Search Internet Share the article and excerpts Direct link … Do a right-click on the link above and select “Copy Link”