ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES OF UTP CABLE

CATEGORY 7:

• ISO/IEC 11801 standard

• Provide signaling rates 600MHz

• 100 meters maximum distance supported
• provide more performance against cross talk and attenuation
• short life cable
• It is used in Gb Ethernet and 10 Gb Ethernet networks

CATEGORY 7a ( ):

• A stands for augmented

• ISO/IEC 11801 standard
• Signaling rates 1000MHz
• Support maximum 100 meters
• short life cable

• used in 10 Gbps core infrastructure

These two cables performance well above earlier cabling standards

CATEGORY 8:
• To support operating frequencies up to 2000MHz

• Speeds up to 40 Gbps

• Shielded twisted pair wiring

• 30 meters distance supported
• It is used 25/40 Gbps core infrastructure