According to a white paper for Panduit, the deployment of Category 6A copper cabling system “has been increasing rapidly as enterprises enable their physical infrastructure with 10 Gb/s capacity to support Smart Data Center server virtualization, I/O consolidation, switch-up links for parallel processing, and convergence of back-bone links applications.”
While the use of Category 6A cabling has been growing significantly in High Speed Data Transport systems, as the paper explains, “a number of deployment challenges remain which impede broad acceptance of Category 6A cabling systems.”
The paper does a good job identifying and sketching these challenges. They include “larger, heavier cables that are difficult to manage, restrict proper air flow in pathway spaces, and add additional stress to the infrastructure due to their added weight.”
End-users also have questions regarding the overall robustness and reliability of Category 6A cabling systems: can these systems provide alien crosstalk performance beyond industry requirements, support both short and long links, be co- mingled with other copper category cables, and support Power over Ethernet applications?
The Panduit TX6ATM 10GIGTM UTP Copper Cabling System, as company officials explain, uses cable matrix tape technology and advanced connector compensation techniques for channel performance. The next-generation UTP cabling system addresses these concerns by offering three qualities outlined in the paper:
Enhanced performance. The system delivers margin on all Category 6A electrical parameters with improved alien crosstalk performance, while being unaffected by cable phasing effects.
Increased flexibility. The system supports both long (100 meter) four-connector channel configurations and short (3 meter) two-connector permanent link configurations to support a wide range of data center architectures and applications.
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.
Edited by Erin Harrison
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