What are the types of network cables?

There are mainly cat5e Network Cable, such as cat6 network cable, cat6a network cable,cat7 network cable and cat8 network cable.

Category 5: Category 5 network patch cords have low attenuation, less crosstalk, higher attenuation to crosstalk ratio (ACR) and signal-to-noise ratio (Structural Return Loss), smaller delay error, and great performance improve. Super Category 5 cable is mainly used for Gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbps).

Category 6 cable: The transmission frequency of the Category 6 network jumper cable is 1MHz～250MHz. The comprehensive attenuation crosstalk ratio (PS-ACR) of the Category 6 wiring system should have a larger margin at 200MHz, which provides 2 times more than 5 The bandwidth of the class. The transmission performance of Category 6 cabling is much higher than that of the Super Category 5 standard, and is most suitable for applications with a transmission rate higher than 1Gbps.

Category 6a cable: Category 6 cable is an improved version of Category 6 network jumper, which is also an unshielded twisted pair cable specified in ANSI/EIA/TIA-568B.2 and ISO Category 6/Class E standards , Mainly used in gigabit networks. In terms of transmission frequency, it is also 200-250 MHz like Category 6 lines, and the maximum transmission speed can also reach 1,000 Mbps, but there is a great improvement in crosstalk, attenuation and signal-to-noise ratio.

Category 7 cable: It is no longer an unshielded twisted pair cable, but a shielded twisted pair cable, so its transmission frequency can reach at least 500 MHz, which is more than twice that of Category 6 and Super Category 6, The transmission rate can reach 10 Gbps.

Category 8 cable: Category 8 cable is the latest generation of double-shielded (SFTP) network jumpers. It has two wire pairs, supports 2000MHz bandwidth, and has a transmission rate of up to 40Gb/s, but its maximum transmission distance is only 30m. Therefore, it is generally used for the connection of servers, switches, patch panels and other equipment in short-distance data centers.