Description: –
A 23 AWG horizontal Cat6 cable with a plenum-rated jacket. The plenum jacket has fire-retardant and low-smoke emission properties. It has four unshielded twisted pairs of conductor wires with different color codes. This cable is been tested on an extended bandwidth of 550MHz.
Applications: –
It supports all Gigabit Ethernet applications. It includes 1000BAST-T/IEEE 802.3ab, ATM up to 155 Mbps, 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet 100BASE-T/IEEE 802.3, ANSI.X3.263 FDDI TP-PMD, Ethernet 10BASE-T/IEEE 802.3, 4 & 16 Mbps Token Ring/IEEE 802.5, T1/E1, xDSL, ISDN, 550 MHz Broadband Video and standards under development such as ATM at 622 Mbps, 1.2, 2.4 and 4.8 Gbps
Ratings/Approvals: –
NEC Article 800, UL 910: CMP Rating FT6, ETL Electrically Verified to ANSI/TIA/EIA 568C.2 Category 6, C (ETL) US, RoHS Compliant.
Construction Layout
- Conductor: 23AWG Solid Bare Copper
- Number of Twisted Pair Wires: 4 Twisted Pairs
- Jacket Material:
- Polyvinyl Chloride – Low Smoke and Fire-Retardant Material
- Nominal Overall Cable Diameter: 240 in.
- Cable Weight: 1000ft. length/ 34lb weight
- Insulation Material: FEP
Electrical and Physical Features
- Temperature Rating:
- Installation: 0°C to 50°C
- Operation: -2°C to 60°C
- Velocity of Propagation: 72%
- Mutual Capacitance: 14 pF/ft. Nominal
- Capacitance Unbalance: 330 pF/ft. maximum
- Maximum Conductor D.C.R: 6 Ω/1,000 ft.
- Maximum D.C.R Unbalance: 3%
- Maximum Delay Skew: 18 ns/100m
- Characteristic Impedance:
- From 0.772 MHz – 100 MHz 100Ω± 15%
- From 101 MHz – 250 MHz 100 Ω ± 22%
- From 251 MHz – 550 MHz 100 Ω ± 32%
- Maximum Operating Voltage: 300 VRMS
- Maximum Bend Radius: 0 in.
- Insulation Colors:
- Blue paired with White/Blue
- Orange paired with White/Orange
- Green paired with White/Green
- Brown paired with White/Brown
Electrical Features
Frequency | Return Loss | Insertion Loss | NEXT | PS- NEXT | ELFEXT | PS- ELFEXT | ACR | PS-ACR |
MHz | dB(100M) | dB(100M) | dB(100M) | dB(100M) | dB(100M) | dB(100M) | dB(100M) | dB(100M) |
Minimum | Maximum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | |
1 | 20.0 | 2.0 | 80.3 | 78.3 | 73.8 | 70.8 | 78.3 | 76.3 |
4 | 23.0 | 3.8 | 71.3 | 69.3 | 61.8 | 58.8 | 67.5 | 65.5 |
10 | 25.0 | 6.0 | 65.3 | 63.3 | 53.8 | 50.8 | 59.3 | 57.3 |
16 | 25.0 | 7.6 | 62.2 | 60.2 | 49.7 | 46.7 | 54.6 | 52.6 |
20 | 25.0 | 8.5 | 60.8 | 58.8 | 47.8 | 44.8 | 52.3 | 50.3 |
31.25 | 23.6 | 10.7 | 57.9 | 55.9 | 43.9 | 40.9 | 47.2 | 45.2 |
62.5 | 21.5 | 15.4 | 53.4 | 51.4 | 37.9 | 34.9 | 38.0 | 36.0 |
100 | 20.1 | 19.8 | 50.3 | 48.3 | 33.8 | 30.8 | 30.5 | 28.5 |
200 | 18.0 | 29.0 | 45.8 | 43.8 | 27.8 | 24.8 | 16.8 | 14.9 |
250 | 17.3 | 32.8 | 44.3 | 42.3 | 25.8 | 22.8 | 11.5 | 9.5 |
300 | 16.8 | 36.4 | 43.1 | 41.1 | 24.3 | 21.3 | – – – | – – – |
350 | 16.3 | 39.8 | 42.1 | 40.1 | 22.9 | 19.9 | – – – | – – – |
400 | 15.9 | 43.0 | 41.3 | 39.3 | 21.8 | 18.8 | – – – | – – – |
500 | 14.8 | 49.5 | 40.2 | 38.2 | 20.0 | 17.0 | – – – | – – – |
550 | 14.4 | 53.1 | 39.5 | 37.5 | 18.9 | 15.9 | – – – | – – – |
Important Notice: –
In the above table, we iTechCables try to present the most accurate calculations possible. Still, we do not guarantee that they are error-free and 100% accurate. We reserve the right to change this information at any time in the future without notice. Values above 250MHz are for engineering information only.
Packaging Information: –
This cable is available in 1000ft. length in a convenient EZ-Pull box.