Cat5

Douglas Tourtelot

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Jul 28, 2006, 1:30:07 PM7/28/06

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Does anyone manufacture "snake" cable with two 4-pair Cat5 cables under one
jacket?

D.

Jay Hartigan

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Jul 28, 2006, 3:35:19 PM7/28/06

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here you go...
http://www.blackbox.com/Catalog/Detail.aspx?cid=45,85,784&mid=1396

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Jay Hartigan

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Jul 28, 2006, 3:40:37 PM7/28/06

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At second glance I notice that the blackbox is not 2 CAT-5 wires in one.
This one is
http://www.trynci.com/cat/siamese.htm Although the web site seems to have
its own problems, it should work.

Try this one.

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Douglas Tourtelot

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Jul 28, 2006, 6:12:13 PM7/28/06

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Thanks for looking Jay. Those are Cat5 siamese and I would anticipate lots
of kinking and coiling issues the way the two are married. But then, I
can't find one example of a "snake" type cable for Cat5. I would have
thought that SOMEONE would make a cable with 16 core, 8 twisted pair, but a
pretty exhaustive search gave me zip (cord<g>).

D.

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Greg Glazier

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Jul 28, 2006, 7:15:25 PM7/28/06

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Douglas:

What is your application? Are you using it for data, or some other
purpose?

I doubt that you'll find any true Cat5 with 8-pair because it won't
meet spec and the crosstalk would be horrendous. Why not just use a
switch at the destination end?

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Jay Rose

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Jul 29, 2006, 1:14:29 PM7/29/06

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On 2006-07-28 18:12:13 -0400, "Douglas Tourtelot"
<tour...@nospanspeakeasy.net> said:

> I would have thought that SOMEONE would make a cable with 16 core, 8
> twisted pair, but a pretty exhaustive search gave me zip (cord<g>).

That's easy: Belden 8308, about $200 per hundred feet at Newark. Not
the most flexible of cables, but OTOH it comes with a shield.

The problem is if you need Cat5-spec twists, rather than just '8
twisted pairs'.

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John Garrett

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Jul 29, 2006, 11:56:18 PM7/29/06

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Jay Rose wrote:

> On 2006-07-28 18:12:13 -0400, "Douglas Tourtelot"
> <tour...@nospanspeakeasy.net> said:
>
>> I would have thought that SOMEONE would make a cable with 16 core, 8
>> twisted pair, but a pretty exhaustive search gave me zip (cord<g>).
>
>
> That's easy: Belden 8308, about $200 per hundred feet at Newark. Not
> the most flexible of cables, but OTOH it comes with a shield.
>
> The problem is if you need Cat5-spec twists, rather than just '8
> twisted pairs'.
>
>
>

My guess is that the charastersitic impedance of the pairs could be
important. I 'm pretty sure there's a multipair CAT 5 cable made, but my
source isn't available for a week or so...give me a bump in a week or so
Doug.

John