CAT6 Wiring

About Cat6 Outdoor Cable

If you want to run out Ethernet cable outside of your house from one room to another, you need to choose cat6 Ethernet cable which is suitable for outdoor. Some of the Cat6 cables are "UV" rated. This means you can expose Cat6 cable to the outdoor Ultra Violet radiation without having any significant destruction. These are referred as Cat6 outdoor cable. Generally PVC is used as material for the layer. Any type of cable which contains air spaces can absorb moisture especially when it is exposed to indoor and outdoor environment. Condensation inside the colder part of outdoor cable can be caused due to the warm moist air. So it is most important to take care like sealing the ends of cables. Some of the cat6 cables are well suitable for direct burial so cable is gel filled in order to protect it from moisture. It can safely run between the two buildings.

Such types of cables are suitable for lashed aerial, vertical, duct and underground Conduit Applications. Performance requirements of cat6 outdoor cables are fulfill with all of the performance requirements for current and proposed applications such as Gigabit Ethernet, 155 Mbps ATM , 100BASE-Tx, token ring, 100 Mbps TP-PMD, analog (Broadband, Baseband) ISDN, and digital video and analog, digital voice (VoIP), IP Camera. This cable is available in black color, and packaged as reel-in-box.

Some of the feature of Outdoor cat6 cables-

• It must be 1,000 ft (305 meters) Reels
• Dielectric Materials-- Primary Insulation and Overall Jacket.
• Under-Carpet Cables--Polyolefin Medium Density Polyolefin.
• Cat6 outdoor cable comes in 4 pairs, cable OD in mm is .245 (6.2) and weight is 35 lbs.