The two drawbacks I'm aware of with Cat6a are that it's much heavier than Cat6, and much less flexible. Using twisted-pair has the advantage over fiber of being a bit cheaper (no separate transceivers needed) and a little denser (at least for our switch modules).
Skylar On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:59 AM, John Stoffel <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> "Ski" == Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> writes: > > Ski> We are rewiring our server room to support 10GB. The folks we > Ski> talked to initially said that for the relatively short distances > Ski> in the server room (less that 100ft) we can get by with cat 6 > Ski> cabling for the patch cables from device to patch panel and > Ski> probably even between patch panels because the distance is so > Ski> short. The installer is saying that he will not certify that we > Ski> will get 10GB unless we use cat 6A every where because of its > Ski> shielding that stops alien crosstalk. > > I guess I wonder what the cost difference is between Cat6 and Cat6a > is, and why you're not going with the better cable, just to make sure > you don't have wonky problems down the line? > > I must admit that we've mostly just run fibre for 10g connections. > > John > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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