> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ski Kacoroski > > We are rewiring our server room to support 10GB. The folks we talked to > initially said that for the relatively short distances in the server > room (less that 100ft) we can get by with cat 6 cabling for the patch > cables from device to patch panel and probably even between patch panels > because the distance is so short. The installer is saying that he will > not certify that we will get 10GB unless we use cat 6A every where > because of its shielding that stops alien crosstalk.
It's written right in the standard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet Cat 6 up to 55m. Cat 6a or Cat 7 up to 100m. Personally, I would just assume a lot of vendors cut corners and do a bad job of testing, so I would mentally divide those lengths by 3 or 4, to be on the safe side. I'm very comfortable with Cat6 up to say 55ft. _______________________________________________ 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/
