Introduction to the TIA's new Cat 8 cable standard for data centers. I have always thought that carrying GHz signals over a copper cable just short of a miracle. With all the resistance, inductance, ...

While “Category 8,” the classification for the next-generation twisted-pair cabling specifications, is still in the development stage, the outlook looks quite positive that it will be specified to 2 ...

This article was updated March 31, 2023. It was originally published Jan. 8, 2016. Engineers and designers who don’t regularly work with CAT data of cables, and even some that do, can get confused ...

Although it probably feels like forever to many of us since Category 5 Ethernet cabling became prevalent, now that 2.5 and even 5 Gbit Ethernet has trickled into the mainstream, a pertinent question ...

Which 50-foot Ethernet cables are best? Ethernet cable technology has come a long way in just a few decades. While a longer cable used to mean a significant degradation in terms of internet ...

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Category 5 cables (or more commonly referred to as Cat 5 cables) are a specific standard of ethernet cable. There are also Cat 5e, Cat 6, Cat 7, and Cat 8 cables to choose from. The main differences ...