CAT5E wire UTP LAN cable

Description

What is cat5e UTP cable?

CAT5E UTP is a Category 5 unshielded twisted pair LAN cable (UTP), It has 8 core wires inside(four pairs of twisted wires), The insulating layer is made of polyethylene polymer material, and the outer jacket is made of flame retardant PVC material, It has a high-performance margin.

CAT5E UTP cable can provide a bandwidth of 100 MHz within a distance of 90 meters, with a typical application rate of 100 Mbps.

The conductor gauge is 24AWG, Currently, there are two types of conductor materials on the market, one is pure copper, and the other is CCA. CAT5E UTP CCA is very cheap and often has no performance requirements. If you want better quality, please choose the pure copper CAT5E.

What is cat5e used for?

CAT5E UTP is used for wiring between work area communication outlets and distribution frames in building generic cabling systems, and for wiring between user communication outlets and distribution frames in residential generic cabling systems, The standard wiring length for this type of wire is 90m, and it is generally installed using T568A or T568B methods.

Generally speaking, CAT5E UTP is a good choice for general office and home use, because of its high cost-performance ratio

In practical applications, CAT5E UTP is used in a 100Mb/s environment to connect switches to computers. If you want CAT5E UTP to play a higher performance role, the requirements for other configured devices are correspondingly higher. Therefore, from the perspective of collation, if you do not plan to replace a better network environment in the future, CAT5E UTP is a very good choice.

What's the difference between cat5e and cat6?

Different construction,
CAT 5E UTP : conductor size is 24AWG, total diameter is 5.2mm
CAT 6 UTP: conductor size is 23AWG, total diameter is 5.9mm

Classification is different: Ethernet cable cat5e belongs to the Category 5 types, while cat6 belongs to Category 6. Although classified differently, we can use cat6 connectors on cat5e cable!

Different in transmission bandwidth: Theoretically, the CAT5E UTP cables can support up to 1000 megabytes of broadband, with a maximum transmission rate of 1000 Mbps, But the CAT6 transmission rates are 1Gbps (1000Mbps), and the theoretical transmission speed is 128MB/s. The transmission frequency of this type of cable is 1 MHz to 250 MHz

Different in the maximum transmission speed and distance: Cat5e network cables are used in Gigabit Ethernet, with transmission distances up to 100m and supporting a transmission speed of 1000 Mbps. Cat6 network cables can provide transmission speeds of up to 10 Gbps in a 250 MHz bandwidth. Cat6 is most suitable for applications with a transmission rate of 1Gbps.

Price is different, CAT6 requires more raw materials, higher technical requirements, and more complex processes, so CAT6 is more expensive, but CAT5E UTP has a high cost-performance ratio, especially when used in households

How to make cat5e ethernet cable?

Prepare the copper wire: We will pull the copper rod to the size we need(diameter is 24 gauge).

Insulated: the insulation of the CAT 5E is PE material(polyethylene), So we will use extrusion equipment to extrude the insulation layer, We need to control uniform insulation thickness and core wire diameter

Twisted pair: This is a very critical step, It will directly affect the performance of the network cable, The twisted pair pitches should be very uniform, and the twisted pair pitches of the four pairs are different from each other

Extruded sheath: For indoor use, we generally choose PVC material as the jacket. If you need outdoor Cat5e cable, we will choose PE material. for the color of the jacket, we can customize, like blue, black, white, grey,

Packing: we can pack in the length you wish, 100Ft, 1000Ft, and in roll, box, or wooden reel!