{"id":16905,"date":"2019-12-16T12:16:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.pinanson.eu\/faq-items\/what-is-difference-between-category-cables-cat5-5e-6-6a\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T11:16:14","slug":"what-is-difference-between-category-cables-cat5-5e-6-6a","status":"publish","type":"avada_faq","link":"https:\/\/pinanson.eu\/en\/faq-items\/what-is-difference-between-category-cables-cat5-5e-6-6a\/","title":{"rendered":"What is difference between Category cables: CAT5, 5e, 6, 6A &#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Structured cabling, also called voice and data communications cabling, is the connection infrastructure standardized by TIA \/ EIA and by IEEE for telephone systems or local area networks (LAN). These regulations are TIA \/ EIA 568 and IEEE 802.3. Today, category cabling is also part of the audiovisual world.<\/p>\n<p>This type of cable is composed of 4 twisted pairs (shielded or not) with impedance of 100 \u03a9. The conductor section will depend on the category, but they range from 24-23 AWG. The greater the category, the greater the diameter.<\/p>\n<p>The different categories are named with numbers as follows: CAT.5, CAT.5E, CAT.6, CAT.6A, CAT.7, CAT.8.<\/p>\n<p>Physically categories can be distinguished by the diameter of the conductors and especially by the turning torque of the pairs. The higher the category the turn will be smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The different categories are named with numbers as follows: CAT.5, CAT.5E, CAT.6, CAT.6A, CAT.7, CAT.8. The conductor section will depend on the category, but they range from 24-23 AWG. The larger the category, the greater the diameter. Physically, categories can be distinguished by the diameter of the conductors and, above all, by the turning torque of the pairs. The higher the category the turn will be smaller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"faq_category":[],"class_list":["post-16905","avada_faq","type-avada_faq","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What is difference between Category cables: CAT5, 5e, 6, 6A ...? - Pinanson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pinanson.eu\/en\/faq-items\/what-is-difference-between-category-cables-cat5-5e-6-6a\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is difference between Category cables: CAT5, 5e, 6, 6A ...? - Pinanson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The different categories are named with numbers as follows: CAT.5, CAT.5E, CAT.6, CAT.6A, CAT.7, CAT.8. 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