10 Gig Cat6

[1ceHacka]

I work for a telecom company as a summer job. We had to use some of the new Cat6a cabling in their main data room and I picked up some of the 10-15ft scraps. I was wondering if anyone knew what type of ends I would need as I don't think RJ45's will fit. Any ideas?

 

[spidey07]

Don't do it.

You must use pre-made and certified cables for 10G

 

[1ceHacka]

I can only use pre-made patch cords with the 10G???? That sounds kinda weird to me considering we just terminated probably 7-48 port patch panels with it.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: 1ceHacka
I can only use pre-made patch cords with the 10G???? That sounds kinda weird to me considering we just terminated probably 7-48 port patch panels with it.

A patch panel terminates in a keystone jack. Those are quite easy to certify if done properly. They are designed for field termination.
Crimping and end to the same standard is very difficult and best left to automated equipment.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: skyking
Crimping and end to the same standard is very difficult and best left to automated equipment.

This seems like a good rule to me. 😉

 

[1ceHacka]

Ok I completely understand that. But I am doing this for my own use, not in the business world. So with that in mind, what ends can be used?

 

[nightowl]

I believe 10G over UTP will use a completely different connector than a RJ-45 plug. This is from what I have seen in pre-release pictures.

 

[her209]

Do you have a 10Gbps NIC?

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: her209
Do you have a 10Gbps NIC?

The thing that peaks my curiosity is what non-industrial application would fill a 1Gbps link? You'd pretty much need two pairs of servers with SCSI drives simultaneously transmitting large files across the SAME cable before you'd see many collisions on a 1Gbps connection.

 

[spidey07]

We routinely fill up a 1 gig connection. Use multiple nics to solve that problem.

I can see 10 gig over copper getting standardized soon - 1-3 years.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger

Originally posted by: her209
Do you have a 10Gbps NIC?

The thing that peaks my curiosity is what non-industrial application would fill a 1Gbps link? You'd pretty much need two pairs of servers with SCSI drives simultaneously transmitting large files across the SAME cable before you'd see many collisions on a 1Gbps connection.

I was thinking the same thing...

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: spidey07
We routinely fill up a 1 gig connection. Use multiple nics to solve that problem.

I can see 10 gig over copper getting standardized soon - 1-3 years.

Under what circumstance? What type of business? I suppose if the server has plenty of memory and the file system is heavily cached, then I could see you filling up a 1gbit connection, but, gosh, I can't imagine that would be a common practice. You must have one heck a tech department where you work.

 

[spidey07]

heh, you wouldn't believe the amount of computing power we have right now.

Also, think about blade servers with their single or dual 1000 Base-T connections to the server access layer (which are 10 gig attached to the core). I'm not much of a server guy but each endlosure has like 12-16 servers. During backups they peg the needle on that connection to the server access layer.

 

[ArchAngel777]

Originally posted by: spidey07
heh, you wouldn't believe the amount of computing power we have right now.

Also, think about blade servers with their single or dual 1000 Base-T connections to the server access layer (which are 10 gig attached to the core). I'm not much of a server guy but each endlosure has like 12-16 servers. During backups they peg the needle on that connection to the server access layer.

Oh yeah, no doubt that some servers make use of it. I don't work for a large company or on any huge networks, so I really don't have a clue about how someone could fill up a 1gbit connection either than hypothetically! Pretty crazy bandwidth and quite honestly, I would not want to be the head administrator for those companies... The nightmare if something goes wrong, the pressure...

Actually, have a few friends who work for Target Corp and if you screw up, your fired. These are the guys that control the roll-out of the new servers and one of the teams made a mistake and the entire team was canned. Crazy stuff and makes me glad and happy to work on smaller networks where the stress level isn't ridiculously high.