10GBase-T Standard May Shift Cat 6A Into High Gear
It’s the end of Category 5e, and with Category 6 under fire, long live Category 6A.
2/14/2007
Source: Cabling Installation & Maintenance
By Luc Adriaenssens
A review of the increase in e-mail traffic and attachment sizes suggests that it will not just be future applications (such as 3D visualization, high-definition video, or others not yet considered) that will require gigabits to the desk. When the traffic peaks from file transfers, e-mail attachments, streaming video, unified messaging, and other commonly deployed applications can combine to tax the capability of today’s LANs, 10-GbE networking is an attractive possibility. Read this article at http://cim.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&PUBLICATION_ID=27&ARTICLE_ID=266652&C=feat written by Luc Adriaenssens - senior vice president, R&D and technology enterprise, for Systimax Solutions (www.systimax.com).