Applying Cat.6A Cabling Systems in Smart Buildings
Structured cabling systems are continually evolving as their scope of network technology, and of its application scenarios, widens. However, the value of these technologies, especially cabling technology, only becomes apparent in their practical application. Over the past decade, Cat.5e and Cat.6 cabling systems have dominated the mainstream building cabling market. But the rapid and widespread deployment of Mobile 5G, while continuously promoting development of the Internet of Things, and improving the digital office facilities, travel and lifestyle choices available to the populace, is also driving changes in data-usage habits, and imposing increasing requirements on smart buildings' network systems. This is accelerating the replacement of Cat.5e and Cat.6 cabling with Cat.6A systems, pushing the latter to the forefront among smart building cabling systems.
As you are probably aware, costs are much lower for networks constructed using electrical interface switches than for those with fibre interfaces, and electrical interfaces therefore continue to capture major shares of the horizontal building cabling and system terminal markets. In the structured cabling market, Cat.6A systems are generally categorized into shielded or unshielded systems, and conform to the ANSI/TIA 568.2-D Cat.6A and ISO/IEC 2nd Class EA standards. Cat.6A cabling systems can be used in high-speed LAN application scenarios including 10BASE-T, 100BASE-T, 1GBASE-T, 2.5G/5GBASE-T and 10GBASE-T, with transmission bandwidths up to 500 MHz.