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1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-geeks-care-about-this-crap dept.

TheIonix writes "Flat network cables aren't anything new, but I'm pretty sure ones like this are. Japanese accessory king Elecom today announced the "LD-VAPF/SV05" network cabling, coming in at 1.4mm thick." Also here's their press release if you can read Japanese.

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  1. Translated Page by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google Translation of press release.

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  2. UTP doesn't have shielding! by PornMaster · · Score: 5, Informative

    The U in UTP is Unshielded. Standard Ethernet doesn't use shielding. But it does use the twists in the cabling to combat interference.

    It looks like this flat cable is only for very small sections, for which you can probably get away without the twists if you've got another way to handle the interference.

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  3. Re:Flatwire by megaversal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Last year (during summer) when I was in Japan, I bought a bunch of Elecom cables (CAT6 though, but the same thin design). They also sold CAT5 (10/100) cable at the same store I got my CAT6, so I'm assuming the real "news" is that they now have gigabit-capable CAT5 cable in the thin variety, not that flat cable is something new, or that even gigabit varieties of flat cable are new.

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