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Application Scenarios of Cat-5 Patch Cable and Cat-5e Network Cable

Publish Time:2021,07,01

Ⅰ. CAT5 patch cable / CAT5E network cable

The CAT5E network cable can be divided into shielded (STP) twisted pair and unshielded (UTP) twisted pair. The transmission frequency of CAT5 cable is 100MHz, which is the most commonly used ethernet cable in the past. However, due to the maturity of CAT5E cable technology, although the transmission frequency of CAT5E cable is also 100MHz, the transmission rate is ten times higher than that of CAT5 cable.  In terms of performance, the near-end crosstalk, attenuation crosstalk ratio, return loss, and other parameters of the CAT5E cable have been improved, but in terms of price, the two are comparable.


Ⅱ. Application scenarios of  CAT5 patch cable and  CAT5E network cable

1. Application scenario of CAT5 patch cable

The CAT5 patch cable is mainly used for voice transmission and data transmission with a maximum transmission rate of 100Mbps and is suitable for 100BASE-T and 10BASE-T network transmission.


2. Application scenarios of CAT5E network cable

CAT5E network cable is mainly used for data transmission at a rate of 1000Mbps, with the characteristics of small attenuation, less crosstalk, and smaller delay errors. Fast CAT5E network cable can support up to 10Gbps ethernet transmission rate under the condition of low external crosstalk.


CAT5E network cable can be used for network connection, termination of wiring project, equipment room or horizontal subsystem, equipment port, and modular patch system connection, such as connecting the LAN interface between the telecom broadband ADSL MODEM and wireless routers, routers, switches, hubs, firewalls, and other equipment to the computer's network card interface, etc.


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