Network gurus, are they cat 6 and cat 7 cables or is teh cabling guy bsing.

[The Stigenator]

My company is moving to a new place and I was just told that I wasnt doing the cabling (thank god the listened to me once). Anyway I was saying cat5e would do fine for normal use, fiber is there for the servers. I wasnt there for the meeting but this is what the guys are laying, cat 6 or cat 7 cables. WTF. I thought those werent out plus the cat 6 was renamed to cat5e right?

 

[Pastore]

i love this stuff

Cat 6 is a developing cabling specification for SFTP (Shielded Foil Twisted Pair) and it supports signaling rates of up to 200 Mhz. Applications are 100BaseT, ATM, and Gigabit Ethernet

Cat 7 is also SFTP technology, and as of right now signaling rates are at 200 Mhz, but developers are trying to get it up to 600 Mhz.

and FYI, Cat 5's performance is 100 Mhz...

Cat 5e is also very similar to Cat 6, but Cat 5e is used in very specialized situations, and its not standardized...

hope all this mumbo jumbo helps...

 

[Czar]

Seems a little early to have cat6 or 7 there, go with cat5

 

oooOo
nice!
Wire me too

 

[iamwiz82]

<< Last updated on: Jul 31, 2000 >>



/me thinks that the article is out dated.

 

[Pastore]

wiz, what article are you talking about?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Funny, I just ran across cat-6 and 7 while looking for 6 pair. 24AWG cable with the pairs shielded (cat-7 came damn close but only 4 pairs)

 

[The Stigenator]

true, but the cable guys be bsing considering they know that the sys admin is a college kid and other people dont listen to him unless they are in need of something.
like whenthey got fiber optic, I was against it since it would be no performance gain.. well I was right, after 100K was spent. Oh well its their money.

Seriously cat 5e will do fine..
yet they want to go with cat6 or 7.. they are nuts.. especially since i havent worked with those cables yet

 

[The Stigenator]

wuestion is who manucfatures cat 6 and 7.
i chceked a few sites that makes cables. they only have cat 5e

never mind. found belkin to have something on it

 

[iamwiz82]

czar just had a link to an article, but he took it down.

 

[virtuamike]

I work at the campus data center and we run cat5 in here. 100mbit on the servers, 10mbit on workstations. Only fiber we got is for our backup servers (they actually need the bandwidth). Over 6 miles of network cable in here, probably another 1.5 in serial.

I love our T3 to Cal though FTP 10MB file, 3 sec transfer. And that's on a slow day.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Belden makes cat-7. P/N 1888NH

 

[sharkeeper]

Nothing like having a high fiber diet.

Cheers!