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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. Re:Shielding? by Broiler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK first off what is an Ethernet cable? You can not buy one at a store. You can buy a CAT5, CAT5E, CAT6...cable at nay computer store.
    Second twisted pair UTP)is not shielded. http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition /0,,sid7_gci213234,00.html/

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  2. Re:Shielding? by afidel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, if you are going to use STP you need to be using equipment designed for it. Equipment designed for STP needs to have a good ground plane and needs to bring that plane out to each port. Between the grounding of the jacket and the twisted pair STP cabling should not be worse performing that UTP, and in some environments is MUCH better. Of course in any invironment with enough RF noise to warrant STP I would just use fibre and not have to worry about the RF at all =)

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