Cable Categories

Question 1

Cat 3

Answer 1

• Shielding: Unshielded
• Max transmission speed (at 100 meters): 10 Mbps
• Max bandwidth: 16 MHz
• Ethernet Standard: 10BASE‐T

Question 2

Cat 4

Answer 2

• Shielding: Unshielded
• Max transmission speed (at 100 meters): 10/100 Mbps
• Max bandwidth: 100 MHz
• Ethernet Standard: 100BASE-TX, or 1000BASE-T

Question 3

Cat 5

Answer 3

• Shielding: Unshielded
• Max transmission speed (at 100 meters): 1000 Mbps / 1 Gbps
• Max bandwidth: 100 MHz
• Ethernet Standard: 100BASE-TX, or 1000BASE-T

Question 4

Cat 6

Answer 4

• Shielding: Shielded or Unshielded
• Max transmission speed (37 -55 meters): 1000 Mbps / 1 Gbps
• Max bandwidth: >250 MHz
• Ethernet Standard: 10GBASE-T

Question 5

Cat 6a

Answer 5

• Shielding: Shielded
• Max transmission speed (at 100 meters): 10000 Mbps / 10 Gbps
• Max bandwidth: 500 MHz
• Ethernet Standard: 10GBASE-T

Question 6

Cat 7

Answer 6

• Shielding: Shielded
• Max transmission speed (at 100 meters): 10000 Mbps / 10 Gbps
• Max bandwidth: 600 MHz
• Ethernet Standard: 10GBASE-T