I agree that Cat 6 is already superfluous for standard applications such as GigE Ethernet that operate in the 0-100MHz band (though theoretically it may give you somewhat more headroom against sloppy terminations in terms of overall testing qualifications).
I guess higher-quality TP can be useful as a general-purpose wireline carrier for a wide range of analog/digital signalling (through the use of baluns and media converters). If I remember correctly, Belden had some nice info on this. With a good active balun you can carry up to 4 channels of baseband (and limited broadband A/V), USB, Firewire, whatever. Including home run distribution.
When my house was built 2-3 yrs ago, Siemon's TERA System 7 (impressive 1GHz non-RJ termination system) was already being prototyped. Unfortunately, Alcatel's "draft Cat 7"-level cable (600MHz fully pair-shielded TP) wasn't available yet and I couldn't find anything else. So I went with Mohawk's 2nd-gen GigaLAN "Cat 6 plus" UTP (though Berk-Tek and others were close competitors) along with some Commscope 2+2 bundled cables. And mostly Siemon System 6 and Leviton for the termination (again, Hubbell, Panduit, etc, were all very similar). Note that back then Cat 6 hadn't officially been ratified yet.
Tip #1: Terminating the 22AWG Mohawk UTP with its thick jacket and crossweb can be a pain on those closely-packed plates/panels.
Tip #2: Try your local supply distributor (Anixter, Anicom, Graybar, etc) to see if they'll sell you these bulk spools for much, much cheaper than retail Cat 5 equipment. Places like DataComm Warehouse is also good, but they don't usually stock the more esoteric structured cabling parts.
I've also tried PGP/VeriSign/et. al in the past, but I've heard rumblings that NA's PGP for Win is being discontinued?
If you're looking for ease of use and seamless integration with Windows OS and email (for the average Joe), you can try Cypherus and/or Ensuredmail (both listed at http://www.onlineprivacystore.com ). Ensuredmail is just great for seamless self-opening email encryption to ANYONE with a Java-capable browser (i.e. without using PKI). The more capable Cypherus makes using PKI with Windows email as seamless as possible, and it can also separately create compressed (Zip-comparable) self-decrypting archives from any groups of files/folders whether for local security use, email attachments, etc. Both make set-up and day-to-day use simple point-n-click affairs (especially with their intelligent Outlook integration).
I've been running both on my oldest workhorse Win PC, but my poor Outlook apparently's been overloaded with too many plug-ins and is giving me fits...
Has Genndy's excellent Dexter's Laboratory been cancelled? What, low ratings, or not enough resources to share with PowerPuff and Samurai Jack? It already sucks that they recently changed most of the voice actors and animators (why was that anyway?), sheesh...
Also, will there be any new production of Big O from Japan (besides the meager 13 eps in existence)? Bebop's excellent, but from what I hear the end is quite final. Outlaw Star's also had a pretty good run. But Big O definitely needs more eps to flesh out the backstory and too see more interactions among the characters and such. The last ep left you excited and wanting to see more!
Oh, so the latest ep that CN has is where Vegeta literally exploded and zapped Buu into little pieces? No wonder, I've seen that ep cycled into rotation THREE times, but have never caught the follow-up ep (even though CN ran the "next-week blurb" for it). Argh, it was so frustrating...
On an off-topic, I've also been enjoying discovering the original DB in re-runs now, it's just a cute, fun way to waste 30mins...
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I agree that Cat 6 is already superfluous for standard applications such as GigE Ethernet that operate in the 0-100MHz band (though theoretically it may give you somewhat more headroom against sloppy terminations in terms of overall testing qualifications).
I guess higher-quality TP can be useful as a general-purpose wireline carrier for a wide range of analog/digital signalling (through the use of baluns and media converters). If I remember correctly, Belden had some nice info on this. With a good active balun you can carry up to 4 channels of baseband (and limited broadband A/V), USB, Firewire, whatever. Including home run distribution.
When my house was built 2-3 yrs ago, Siemon's TERA System 7 (impressive 1GHz non-RJ termination system) was already being prototyped. Unfortunately, Alcatel's "draft Cat 7"-level cable (600MHz fully pair-shielded TP) wasn't available yet and I couldn't find anything else. So I went with Mohawk's 2nd-gen GigaLAN "Cat 6 plus" UTP (though Berk-Tek and others were close competitors) along with some Commscope 2+2 bundled cables. And mostly Siemon System 6 and Leviton for the termination (again, Hubbell, Panduit, etc, were all very similar). Note that back then Cat 6 hadn't officially been ratified yet.
Tip #1: Terminating the 22AWG Mohawk UTP with its thick jacket and crossweb can be a pain on those closely-packed plates/panels.
Tip #2: Try your local supply distributor (Anixter, Anicom, Graybar, etc) to see if they'll sell you these bulk spools for much, much cheaper than retail Cat 5 equipment. Places like DataComm Warehouse is also good, but they don't usually stock the more esoteric structured cabling parts.
I've also tried PGP/VeriSign/et. al in the past, but I've heard rumblings that NA's PGP for Win is being discontinued?
If you're looking for ease of use and seamless integration with Windows OS and email (for the average Joe), you can try Cypherus and/or Ensuredmail (both listed at http://www.onlineprivacystore.com ). Ensuredmail is just great for seamless self-opening email encryption to ANYONE with a Java-capable browser (i.e. without using PKI). The more capable Cypherus makes using PKI with Windows email as seamless as possible, and it can also separately create compressed (Zip-comparable) self-decrypting archives from any groups of files/folders whether for local security use, email attachments, etc. Both make set-up and day-to-day use simple point-n-click affairs (especially with their intelligent Outlook integration).
I've been running both on my oldest workhorse Win PC, but my poor Outlook apparently's been overloaded with too many plug-ins and is giving me fits...
Has Genndy's excellent Dexter's Laboratory been cancelled? What, low ratings, or not enough resources to share with PowerPuff and Samurai Jack? It already sucks that they recently changed most of the voice actors and animators (why was that anyway?), sheesh... Also, will there be any new production of Big O from Japan (besides the meager 13 eps in existence)? Bebop's excellent, but from what I hear the end is quite final. Outlaw Star's also had a pretty good run. But Big O definitely needs more eps to flesh out the backstory and too see more interactions among the characters and such. The last ep left you excited and wanting to see more!
Oh, so the latest ep that CN has is where Vegeta literally exploded and zapped Buu into little pieces? No wonder, I've seen that ep cycled into rotation THREE times, but have never caught the follow-up ep (even though CN ran the "next-week blurb" for it). Argh, it was so frustrating... On an off-topic, I've also been enjoying discovering the original DB in re-runs now, it's just a cute, fun way to waste 30mins...