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Which cable is used in LAN ?

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Date de publication: 2016/03/18
Khaled Zaky
par Khaled Zaky , Director of Product Management - Public Cloud , Royal Bank of Canada

Local area network and EthernetTwisted pair cabling includes four pairs of twisted wires, normally connected to a RJ-45 plug at the end.

Abu Saeed
par Abu Saeed , System & Network Engineer , DFS

cable is used in LAN UTP Cat-6, Cat-5, Cat-6 A

LAN or (Local Area Network) is a generic term that can be used for various types of networks. Top locale at a distance from this type of network. Transferring data at high speed at close range is easy with current hardware. As the distance is low, the signal becomes weaker, and it takes more time for information to reach its destination. WAN or (Wide Area Network) is a generic term that can be used for various types of networks that work remotely. This type of network is slower and the protocol used must match the time required by the signal to travel long distances. Ethernet is the appropriate protocol for this use. WANs often use more than one type of cable and protocol (very common optical fiber) to apply a complete path to one end to the other. Ethernet has become the dominant type of cable network used at home and close-range digital communications. Due to the use of RJ- connectors and some existing Ethernet generations, the cord can be lit from the cable cord that is using the latest RJ- CAT6-7 cable connector. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. The RJ- cable for phone use usually has slightly different RJ- connectors that do not work with Ethernet jacks. Anything with a CAT rating of less than5 is useless. The CAT5 cable is good for Mb Ethernet and works well for1 Gb Ethernet if the cable length is short. Cat5e works great for1 GB Ethernet but Cat6 is better for cables that are over feet in length. Unusual Ethernet cables stop working momentarily due to faulty wires or bad contacts inside the RJ- connector. Some cables that are not working properly may not work properly the first time you connect them. An overall good Ethernet cable is very expensive if you have something better for Best Buy to choose. Quality cables under $ are available but stay away from the bargain-basement cable. I usually buy5 or more cables at a time and have found a good cable in multi-packaged packages at very affordable prices. I do not bother with cables that do not have some sort of guard to clip on RJ- connectors.

An Ethernet crossover cable is a type of twisted pair Ethernet cable used to connect computing devices together directly that would normally be connected via a network switch, hub or router, such as directly connecting two personal computers via their network adapters.

muhammad irfan
par muhammad irfan , Associate Biomedical Engineer , Primary & Secondary Healthcare Department Govt. of Punjab

Untwisted Pair Ethernet Cable

Zeeshan  Sarwar
par Zeeshan Sarwar , IT Engineer , JUMBO ELECTRONICS COMPANY LIMITED (LLC)

Depending on the requirement of network and distance. Twisted Pair Cables CAT 5 for PC. CAT5e and CAT6 used for up link and outdoor. 

Mohammad Tauseef Siddiqui
par Mohammad Tauseef Siddiqui , Lead Network Engineer , IBM

UTP Cat-6 - Unshielded Twisted Pair cable is used in LAN, contains 4 pairs of wire.

Mujahid Hanif Bhutta
par Mujahid Hanif Bhutta , System support engineer , University of lahore

Ethernet  which have many catageroy like cat5, cat 6. twisted pair cable

Faseeh Mohd koya
par Faseeh Mohd koya , IT SUPPORT ENGINEER [L2] , Ministry of Sports and Youth

Category 3

Category 3 Ethernet cable, also known as Cat 3 or station wire, is one of the oldest forms of Ethernet cable still in use today. It is an unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable that is capable of carrying 10 megabits per second (Mbps) of data or voice transmissions. Its maximum possible bandwidth is 16 MHz. Cat 3 cable reached the peak of its popularity in the early 1990s, as it was then the industry standard for computer networks. With the debut of the faster Category 5 cable, however, Cat 3 fell out of favor. It still can be seen in use in two-line telephone systems and older 10BASE-T Ethernet installations.

Category 5

Category 5 (Cat 5) Ethernet cable is the successor to the earlier Category 3. Like Cat 3, it is a UTP cable, but it is able to carry data at a higher transfer rate. Cat 5 cables introduced the 10/100Mbps speed to the Ethernet, which means that the cables can support either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps speeds. A 100 Mbps speed is also known as Fast Ethernet, and Cat 5 cables were the first Fast Ethernet-capable cables to be introduced. They also can be used for telephone signals and video, in addition to Ethernet data. This category has been superseded by the newer Category 5e cables.

Category 5e

The Category 5e standard is an enhanced version of Cat 5 cable, which is optimized to reduce crosstalk, or the unwanted transmission of signals between data channels. This category works for 10/100 Mbps and 1000 Mbps (Gigabit) Ethernet, and it has become the most widely used category of Ethernet cable available on the market. While Cat 5 is common in existing installations, Cat 5e has completely replaced it in new installations. While both Cat 5 and Cat 5e cables contain four twisted pairs of wires, Cat 5 only utilizes two of these pairs for Fast Ethernet, while Cat 5e uses all four, enabling Gigabit Ethernet speeds. Bandwidth is also increased with Cat 5e cables, which can support a maximum bandwidth of 100 MHz. Cat 5e cables are backward compatible with Cat 5 cables, and can be used in any modern network installation.

Category 6

One of the major differences between Category 5e and the newer Category 6 is in transmission performance. While Cat 5e cables can handle Gigabit Ethernet speeds, Cat 6 cables are certified to handle Gigabit Ethernet with a bandwidth of up to 250 MHz. Cat 6 cables have several improvements, including better insulation and thinner wires, that provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio, and are better suited for environments in which there may be higher electromagnetic interference. Some Cat 6 cables are available in shielded twisted pair (STP) forms or UTP forms. However, for most applications, Cat 5e cable is adequate for gigabit Ethernet, and it is much less expensive than Cat 6 cable. Cat 6 cable is also backwards compatible with Cat 5 and 5e cables.

Category 6a

Category 6 a cable, or augmented Category 6 cable, improves upon the basic Cat 6 cable by allowing 10,000 Mbps data transmission rates and effectively doubling the maximum bandwidth to 500 MHz. Category 6a cables are usually available in STP form, and, as a result, must have specialized connectors that ground the cable.

Category 7

Category 7 cable, also known as Class F, is a fully shielded cable that supports speeds of up to 10 Gbps (10,000 Mbps) and bandwidths of up to 600 Mhz. Cat 7 cables consist of a screened, shielded twisted pair (SSTP) of wires, and the layers of insulation and shielding contained within them are even more extensive than that of Cat 6 cables. Because of this shielding, they are thicker, more bulky, and more difficult to bend. Additionally, each of the shielding layers must be grounded, or else performance may be reduced to the point that there will be no improvement over Cat 6, and performance may be worse than Cat 5. For this reason, it's very important to understand the type of connectors at the ends of a Cat 7 cable.

Ahmad Abbas
par Ahmad Abbas , Network / System Support Engineer , FAD Investment & Development Company

If network  devices support 100Mbps use cat 5  while cat 6 also work for that network , if your devices support 1000Mbps than cat 6.  

Muhammad Waqas hanif
par Muhammad Waqas hanif , systems administrator , MIT Academy

CAT 6 and CAT 5 Cable are used for LAN 

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