Cat wiring standards. It is the form of wiring that is used for standard telephone pots wiring or for isdn. The tia 942 standard currently in its b revision complements other standards documents for professionals who specify deploy and manage data center fiber optic cabling systems. In cat 6 cable the spline is not required either as long as the cable tests according to the standard. Although the spline is not required in cat 5 cable some manufactures include it anyway.
Many cat 6 cables also include a nylon spline which helps eliminate crosstalk. This cable is defined in tiaeia 568 b. This is not recognised by thetiaeia. It was popular for use with 10 mbps ethernet networks 100base t but has.
In the picture above the cat 5e cable is the only one with a spline. Cat5 cable is typically used for ethernet networks running at 10 or 100 mbps. Category 5 5e 6 6a and 7 cable standards c ategory 5 cable category 5 cat5 cable is a multi pair usually 4 pair high performance cable that consists of twisted pair conductors used mainly for data transmission. Cat 5e lacks some of the technical improvements that went into cat 6 but it supports gigabit ethernet installations at a lower cost.
Basic cat5 cable was designed for characteristics of up to 100 mhz. Category 5 cable cat 5 is a twisted pair cable for computer networkssince 2001 the variant commonly in use is the category 5e specification cat 5ethe cable standard provides performance of up to 100 mhz and is suitable for most varieties of ethernet over twisted pair up to 1000base t gigabit ethernet. C ategory 5e cable category 5e. It is used for data networks employing frequencies up to 16 mhz.