Re: How to make a shielded cat6 patch cable

James Knott wrote:

> laurent GARNIER wrote:
>
>> Argggghhh ! I thougth wrong things about shielded cables. For me
>> "shield" was equivalent of "better quality".
>
> No, it means the cable is shielded. There are plenty of low quality
> shielded cables around.
>>
>>> If you're really interested in longer distances, and/or worried about
>>> interference, pickup etc., then fibre would probably be a better
>>> choice, and has become reasonably affordable in comparison, whereas
>>> the price differential used to be considerable.
>>>
>>> ("fiber", for transpondian readers)
>>
>> Our purpose is to interconnect network equipments within several 19'
>> rack-cabinet with copper gigaethernet links. Rack-Cabinets are close
>> from each other but sometimes the link's length could be higher than 100
>> meters.
>>
>> What type of copper ethernet cable I can use for short connections ?
>> What type of copper ethernet cable I can use for long connections ?
>
> Your choices are stranded for patch cables and solid for "permanent" runs.
> You may lose some distance with stranded, but the maximum copper distance
> is 100M, except for 10 Gb, which is much less.

Has the 10 gig over UTP standard been released?

>> Is yours above recommendations could support ethernet protocol evolution
>> (like 10 Gb) ?
>
> Fibre is the way to go for any significant distance at 10 Gb.
> If you're in a location, where electrical noise is a concern, fibre is the
> better choice.

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