Category 6 cable cat 6 is a standardized twisted pair cable for ethernet and other network physical layers that is backward compatible with the category 5 5e and category 3 cable standards.
Cat 5 cable standard lengths.
Category 5 cable cat 5 is a twisted pair cable for computer networks since 2001 the variant commonly in use is the category 5e specification cat 5e the cable standard provides performance of up to 100 mhz and is suitable for most varieties of ethernet over twisted pair up to 1000base t gigabit ethernet.
This is not recognised by the tia eia.
Cat 6 cables support higher bandwidths than cat 5.
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This is the network cable that is widely used for 100base t and 1000base t networks as it provides performance to allow data at 100 mbps and slightly more 125 mhz for 1000base t ethernet.
Cat 5e is currently the most commonly used cable mainly due to its low production cost and support for speeds faster than cat 5 cables.
Cat 5 is also used to carry other signals such as telephony and video.
The cat 5 cable superseded the cat 3 version and for a number of years it became the standard for ethernet.