Category 3 Cabling
HoustonCommunicationSystems.com provides cabling and installation for all category 3 cable projects. We have extensive experience with category 3 cabling, so you can feel confident knowing that when we cable your office, we'll get the job done right, the first time. Please let us know if you have any cable specific questions or need a bid on a particular project and we'll be sure to help you right away.
For Category 3 Cabling in Houston call 1-281-807-2785.
About Category 3 Cabling
Cat3 cable, commonly identified as Category 3, is the unshielded twisted pair cable that is designed to dependably carry data up to 10 Mbit/s, with possible cable bandwidth of 16 MHz, and it is the part of family of a copper cabling standard that are defined jointly by Electronic Industries Alliance and Telecommunications Industry. Category 3 was popular cabling set up among the computer network managers in early 1990s, however fell out of the popularity in errand of very similar, but high performing, Category 5 standard. Now that the Cat 5 is out of date, most new ordered cable installations are been built with the Cat 5e and Cat 6 cable. The Cat 3 is at present still in exercise in two-line phone systems, though Cat 5 and higher can do same work as well as allow change to VOIP.
Unlike Cat 1, 2, 4, & 5 cables, the TIA/EIA 568 B, crucial standard, recognizes Cat 3. Cat6 or Category – 6, is cable standard for the Gigabit Ethernet and some other network protocols, which is backward compatible with Category 5/5e & Category 3 wiring standards. Category-6 features little more stringent stipulation for crosswalk and the system noise.
In case every bit of info that your business processes is critical, you have the performance and dependability, which is built in Cat6. This improved Cat 6 was conceived in order to support most demanding, the ultra-high speed as well as multi-Gigabit protocols, giving blistering performance.
Cable standard is appropriate for 10BASE-T or 100BASE-TX & 1000BASE-T connections. It gives performance of 250 MHz. In case you plan to run up to 1000 Mbps or little more. Cat 6 is good if you are in the area, which have interference such as near power lines, equipment manufacturing, lights, or long distance of 1000 Mbps run. Cat 6 cables are good for the "future proofing" of your installation. In addition, they are rated in order to carry system speeds more than 1000 Mbps. As the streaming media applications like video & multi media become very common, demands for quicker data rates can increase and make new applications, which will benefit from high bandwidth given by the Cat 6. This is precisely what happened in early 90's when high bandwidth of cat 5 cabling when in comparison to the category 3 that is caused by most of the LAN applications in order to choose new media in order to allow easier, cost effectual, high speed LAN applications, like 100BASE-TX.