CAT 5e offer both unshielded and shielded system, in full compliant with EIA/TIA 568-B.2 and ISO 11801 D channel, providing significant margin in both return loss and NEXT, in support of many different networking requirement, including 1000Base-T, Broadband video, 3D video and other multimedia applications.
CAT 5E Unshielded System
Product Model Product Description
EP41-21-03 CAT 5E 24 Port Unshielded Patch Panel
EP31-21-21 CAT 5E 90 C Unshielded Data Jack
EP11-21-12 Cat 5E UTP 4 Pairs PVC Cable
EP62-11-1 Cat 5E 1m UTP Power Sum patch cord
CAT 5E Shielded System
Product Model Product Description
EP41-31-05 CAT 5E 24 Port Shielded Patch Panel
EP31-21-25 CAT 5E 90 C Shielded Data Jack
EP11-21-13 Cat 5E FTP 4 Pairs PVC Cable
EP62-12-1 Cat 5E 1m FTP Power Sum patch cord
Worst Values and Typical Values for CAT 5E Channel (1-100Mhz)
Worst Margin Typical Margin
(INSERTION LOSS) 5% 10%
(NEXT) 3db 8.5db
(PSNEXT) 5.5db 9.5db
(ELFEXT) 4.5db 10.5db
(PSELFEXT) 5.5db 11.5db
(RL) 1.0db 5.5db
CAT 5E is a high performance cabling system. With the use of impedance matching components, the data error rates of the channels are highly reduced, thus increasing the transmission performance and efficiency to a great extent. CAT 5E components work in full harmony with the cables, significantly increasing the margin for both permanent link and channel testing, thus highly reducing the interference during the data transmission.
CAT 5E far exceeds the requirement TIA/EIA and ISO 11801, providing extra channel margin to ensure sure pass in any handheld tester during the field site testing. The typical NEXT value of CAT 5E is around 8 dB whereas the worst value exceeds 3 dB
CAT 5E provides extended working frequency up to 350 Mhz. Through the special design in the twist distance in the cable pairs, the cables can be tested up to 350 Mhz which provides the best support for the current and future multimedia applications. CAT 5E cables fulfills the testing procedures as governed by ASTM6 D4566, complying with Power Sum requirement, which is very critical for reducing signal distortion as this is the total sum of the crosstalk from each of the other pairs in the cable and this will more accurately reveal the actual crosstalk performance of the cables.
In 1995, Enpter launched out enhanced Shielded system, which effectively provides superior EMI/RFI capability for the cabling system. External interference source usually has very adverse effect on the system performance and to reduce these interference, CAT 5E enhanced shielded system adopts either the individually shielded or individually shielded plus overall shielded cable. These cables are highly recommended for environments with great interference sources which may significantly affects the attenuation, NEXT and also ELFEXT performance.
CAT 5E can offer different jacket types such as PVC, LSOH, LSFROH, CMR, CMP for meeting different fire performance requirements.
