Category 6 Cable: A League above the Balance!
Today’s bandwidth expectations mean that Category 5 is strategically dead. The Class 5 Enhanced (5e) standards, which must obtain been ratified in August and may be finalized at November’s committee meeting, specify new measurements that provide more margins for 100BaseTX and ATM-155 traffic. Critically, Category 5e standards make reliable Gigabit Ethernet connections possible. But many ...