Black Box CAT5 Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) Patch Cable manual Overview, Typical Application

FEATURES

•Foil shield and drain wire keep noise out and intrinsic noise in.

•Meets or exceeds all standards for Category 5 cable.

•Pinned and paired to EIA/TIA-568 specifications.

•Stranded riser version available in custom lengths.

OVERVIEW

Regular unshielded twisted-pair (UTP) cable is fine for most sites. It’s useful where the electronic-noise sources might consist of a server or two, a laser printer, a few relatively distant fluorescent lights, and somebody’s old desktop radio.

But you know that’s not going to work at your site. Maybe you need to route your network cable next to an elevator, a compressor, a belt-drive motor, or a big bank of fluorescents; places where the electromagnetic and radio-frequency interference (EMI/RFI) would wreak havoc with unshielded cable.

Or maybe you need to run cable through Intensive Care, or close to sensitive detection equipment. Unshielded cables could themselves cause harmful interference in this application.

Our Shielded Twisted-Pair (STP) cables are tailor-made for these environments. The wires that carry data through these cables are surrounded by a shielding layer of aluminum- polyester foil that keeps outside noise out and intrinsic noise in, along with a drain wire that diverts interference to ground. Even the cable plugs are shielded!

These four-pair cables meet or exceed all Category 5 standards. They’re ready for 100-Mbps data traffic whenever you are. And, though there is no definitive EIA/TIA standard for STP cabling, these cables are also built, pinned, and paired to match every part of the EIA/TIA-568 UTP specifications.

The stranded-conductor, riser-rated version (EVNSL60) is available in several stock lengths and in custom lengths as well.

The solid-conductor plenum-rated version (EVNSL71) is available in a wider variety of stock lengths. Call for a quote on a custom length. Keep in mind, large orders get a break on price, so buy in quantity and save!

TYPICAL APPLICATION

Run 100BASE-T cable closer to factory floors, labs, or your airport’s generators and X-ray machines than you thought possible.

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