Question on terminating direct burial cat5 cable

[rmrf]

I am looking at making a cable run between two buildings. The run will be roughly 75 ft., most of that being underground. I have researched direct burial cable, and have found that one of these two choices will be the best.

http://www.cat5ecableguy.com/inc/pdetail?v=1&pid=141
http://www.cat5ecableguy.com/inc/pdetail?v=1&pid=7825

My question is, since the cable is obviously going to be thicker with the extra shielding, etc.; how do I terminate the ends for use? Would I be able run the cable into the building, and use a standard toolless RJ45 Keystone Jack, or do I need to use a commercial solution?

Also, I have wireless in one building, but I DO NOT want to use wireless. A wired solution will net be better performance all the way around, and I do not want to deal with the inconsistencies of a wireless solution. I will be placing a rack in the other building, and require a wired connection.

Thanks for any help.

 

[whalen]

The cable basically is a regular Cat5 cable with some "gel" type material in it that prevents water from damaging the cable if the cable were to crack. On the outside of that there is some extra shielding. To terminate it, you just pull off the outer shielding and then terminate it as you would any other Cat5 cable.

I would recommend using some sort of lightning protection on each end of the cable run.
Lightning Protectors

 

[ScottMac]

Well, first off, you need to terminate each end with an entrance protection device (and it must be Category rated, just like the cable.

From there you could go to an info outlet or panel.

Wear gloves; some of the water displacement gel can be irritating.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[cmetz]

rmrf, always use fiber between buildings. Ask your electrician why.

 

[Joony]

i'd say go fiber for between buildings, they aren't susceptible to electromagnetic inteference or anything of that sort. Then just have some sort of transceiver that converets fiber to cat5. Sure, it would cost a bit more but you could get more connections going through fiber since they tend to have extra pairs running in them. Bandwith is also almost limitless on fiber, 10 gigabit equipment is getting cheaper.

 

[cmetz]

100BaseTX <-> 100BaseFsomething (X?) transceivers cost me about $125, a pair is $250. Compared to frying equipment and/or people, that's cheap.

 

[ScottMac]

CDW has a bunch of Allied Telesyn stuff in the Clearence site. One of my co-workers just got a pair (100BASE-TX->FX) for ~US$80.00.

There are some off-brands that are under $50.00 apiece new, retail.

FWIW

Scott