| | Category 5 cable: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Cat 7 (Cat 7: more facts about this subject) cable, with four individually-shielded pairs (ScTP) inside an overall shield, has been proposed but is not in common use. |
 | | It is designed for transmission frequencies up to 600MHz (MHz: One million periods per second), which should enable it to carry 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GBaseT), but requires a redesigned RJ-45 connector (called a GG45) to achieve this speed. |
 | | 10GBaseT networks are not yet widely available, and may not be able to compete with fibre optic (fibre optic: an optical fiber is a transparent thin fiber, usually made of glass, for transmitting light]... |
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