Structured CablingWhat Is Structured Cabling?
Your initial investment in a 'standards' based structured cabling system will return many benefits including an extended operational lifespan, predictable performance, manageability and growth. These benefits bring increased efficiency, improved productivity and reduced costs to you and your business. Category 5e suitable for network installations with bandwidth requirements up to 100Mbps. Advantages: What Are 'Standards' And Why Are They Important ?Domestic and international standards organizations have been formed to ensure that manufactured products meet certain quality, safety and performance 'norms' for that category and class of product. Standards organizations such as ISO/IEC, TIA/EIA, CENELEC and CSA have created and published standards for structured cabling components and systems, and their specifications for Category 5, Category 5e and proposed specifications for Category 6 systems are widely used and accepted in the industry today.
Category 5 recommendations were developed in the early 1990’s to define the use of low cost Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cabling and components in a structured cabling system with performance parameters specified up to 100 MHz. Category 5e specifications, also referred to as Enhanced Category 5, were developed at the end of the ’90s to meet the demands of more sophisticated networking applications such as Gigabit Ethernet and to take advantage of significant advances in UTP cabling system engineering and manufacturing technologies. Today, the Category 5e standard is generally accepted as the minimum requirement for data applications in new cabling system installations, and it is anticipated that most standards organizations will recommend the use of the Category 5 standard in lieu of all earlier standards for voice networking applications. The constant need for faster and more efficient network applications will, inevitably, result in the need for higher performance structured cabling systems. Standards organizations around the world are already working on developing a new Category 6 standard to define enhanced performance parameters beyond the current scope of Category 5e specifications. Current Category 6 proposals define channel bandwidth at 200 MHz or greater, providing at least twice the bandwidth of Category 5e systems and ensuring support for tomorrow’s multi-gigabit networking applications. For end-users, the challenge will be in selecting a structured cabling system that will meet both current and future needs. Whether those needs indicate the use of Category 5e or Category 6 systems, end-users should look for systems that not only meet but exceed the specifications of each respective standard, thereby providing additional performance margins to accommodate the evolution of ever more demanding networking needs.
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voice and video cabling system for your business. A properly designed and installed structured cabling system provides you with a cabling infrastructure that delivers predictable performance as well as flexibility to accommodate growth and change over an extended period of time. Additionally, a structured cabling system provides a uniform, open physical cabling topology that can simultaneously support multiple logical networking topologies for different applications such as Ethernet, token-ring, ATM or video. 
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