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Q11: What is Category 6 & 7?
A11:Category 6 is capable of a transmission frequency of 250 MHz and
would use UTP or FTP/SFTP cable and R145 connectors. It provides an excellent
platform for Gigabit Ethernet (which uses complex encoding techniques
to limit the required bandwidth to 100 MHz), but also caters for future
high-speed data transmission protocols using less expensive encoding schemes.Category
7 will use fully shielded cables (overall shield and individually shielded
pairs) and a new connector type in order to achieve 600 MHz capabilities.
Cat 6 and Cat 7 have tighter twists, which result in greater speeds.
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