Structured Cabling Discussion: Working With CAT5e, CAT6, CAT6A & Shielded Patch Panels

so here hanging out with Cory today we grabbed a couple boxes of cable out of his truck and we're gonna do a video on all the equipment you need to have a wiring truck so as we organized it just a little I've been busy yeah he's been busy what can you say we're wiring a lot of stuff here and people ask like questions about this or this is a quick video talk about some of the differences in the cable now this is we're doing a job right now that requires cat6a cable this is cat6 cable what we got here cat this is the cat six shielded cat 6 shield is just cat 6 and that is regular cat 5 all right yeah fine so we started holding the cables up together you're gonna start seeing a difference here so let me just pull them all together alright I wasn't ready so what we have here is the cables your cat 6 and cat 5 look pretty much the same they're not a big difference between them once you get into a shielded cable though you have this little extra piece of shielding here to cut down RF frequencies and it's a little bit thicker once you go all the way the cat's sake say this stuff is heavy and you know it pulls pretty much the same to the ceiling it's a heck of a lot more difficult it's a lot more weight this is a these cables once you get to cat 6a only come in these larger spools now cat 5e it's been around forever we still install a lot of it some people are kind of surprised by that but it comes down to budgets and cat 5e will do 300 meters full gigabit connection and that's fast enough for most people I know someone's screaming are you now saying oh no you should just always go to the best and like reality is not everybody can afford it now I can afford it when it's scales up ready yeah it's only a little bit more until you're doing a thousand drops at a time the other thing is cat 6 as well if you're just going straight cat 6 it has the same limitation of 300 meter gig event so there's not a big difference between the two of them but cat 6 will do 37 meters at 10 gigabit so you can get your speeds out of it so it does have some potential but only up to 37 meters the particular project were working on is requires cat6a because they need longer than 37 meters to have 10 gigabit and it's for a bunch of switching equipment we're putting in so the cat6a is nice but boy just it's a lot everything about it it's just the weight of this is probably equal to the weight of both of these put together yeah the camp 5n they can't 6 just the can't see when you're running it you instead of being in a box you also have to think about distributions so we have spools that we hold these on you pull them off the spools a small amount of boxes so there's also the more setup time the more work there's a lot more that goes into somebody at 6 a.m. I got more prep work yeah and then it goes a step further so I it takes seconds Cory can probably do these in his sleep and probably has that I'm going to sleep when it comes to just punch it down these cat fives they snap in real easy they're very much standard you know the the easy to do punch them down here's the Keystone here's a patch panel no big deal very thin very very thin wire very thin to thing in here on the back of it you just push them in with a little tool no problem it gets a little bit more rigid when we go to cat 6 but the spacing is just about identical between these so they you can't really tell the difference I'll still look really close to wires okay a little bit tighter on there so this is your cat 6 once well once you get to cat 6a it's much much different much much different the cat 6a cable is so heavy this particularly this particular one is a keystone shielded we have one of the Keystone's out and I'll show you a close-up here where the keystone looks like now these are different because these push in and lock down not all of them are going to be shielded so we have an unshielded keystone on one end and the other this particular piece of cable as a shield is one it's different than the K bar here and it says cat6a unshielded but if you're in a high RF environment like the if your comm room has got a lot of other electrical interference these are going in automotive so we needed a shielded ones on here and also these stones some of the cat6a you can buy shielded too and they have a huge huge price difference these are almost six dollars apiece yeah the price jumps up quite a bit once you go to these castings anyway 90 so it adds a lot to the job as well so you have to consider that when you're putting this all together and making sure that you have the right ends for the job and the shielding makes another process so you end up taking a lot longer to push these in pull the cable apart the guys are laughing before we started the video watching me trying to cut through the shielding on this because I take a I guess scissors on a pocketknife just a real quick he can run around with your finger like this and you can pop the cable right off this stuff not so much it's it's a lot more to work with by the time you do about 12 or 13 of these your fingers are pretty sort your fingers are really sore anything it's a lot especially when you have to pull these out like this and put them in you can see just how and that's even heavier shielding is than this it's even heavier than this you can see the cable wants to it's just a lot of Merrill back up which causes a lot even with this metal end on it it causes a lot more you know a lot more problems pulling it trying to keep it straight going up into a ceiling tile to pull it to your destination and that that's part of the struggle with the cat6a tree yeah so once you get a bundle of these or as we do we have a group of them on spools we're trying to pull a lot at once everything is amplified so you have to have larger rings and chases when you're pulling your shoe it doesn't just pull it's easy over things because the cable itself is so rigid it doesn't pull easy so this does increase the price a little bit and this is why the labor prices go up as well as the this cable costs about three times with that cat5e cost down there so it's not a little bit of a change when you start scaling to these larger jobs it's a whole lot more the nice thing is with these we settled on for the cat six days even if they're not shielded the modular ones become a whole lot easier to work with because once you go to these whether or not mod your where you just punch down and braid the wires in between here you don't want to do that with the cat 6a because it's so thick the modular once you go to these they're great the downside of the modular is they're a little bit bigger so they don't they're not as spaced conserving so you get a little bit of a wider they're about twice as heavy there oh yeah it weighs a lot more it's a lot heavier but the nice thing is when you take these out you just pop the individual units out wire them and pop them back in making it really easy to do the process now they do also make the non shielded cat6a patch panels as well and you know yeah you can get an idea tear up they're a pain in the butt to get to get your wire management to come off of that properly because they just kind of want to flow wherever they land and that's a that's a big deal when you're talking about a cable that doesn't quite ply as good as maybe they can't find yeah and once you get to these jobs or you're doing two or three hundred runs and you're doing a series of comm rooms your fingers are bleeding by the end of each day try to push them down that's one of the reasons we go once we get to this larger cable going modular makes it way easier I like the non-modular when you're doing with the small ones but once you get to these larger jobs hit a nice thing too because the cables instead of coming in from each side and being braided through they're gonna punch straight in there so each cable I'll show you by putting this one back hole it's these things are like notably heavy yeah so we uh we put it in if I get it in there right now I got it upside down tonight I do I do this is why I hired him because I will put things in wrong and get them stuck I'm consistent at this hearing good egg pick I have a professional pull it out for me now you never actually you hire my company and you hire smart people I hire you don't actually hire me to do the wiring I know where all the wires need to go but it and then when you're doing a cable management now now this properly put in you'll see how the wires are gonna come straight out so the back of the cast six every one of them is coming straight in like this another thing two times is this modular panel comes with trays that actually slot in here to where you actually have a retainer once you finish one row you put that retainer on and then you zip tie the wire to it and it keeps the wire perfectly straight out away from the back of the tent 680m yeah because it they want to twist on you there's just nothing you can do about it right that's another problem you do is that cables want to twist up on you these are some considerations if you want to get into cat 6a or you want us to why your cat 6a for you these are all the other consideration that goes into here so the extended labor on the back end has to be calculated into the job versus cat 5e link we can do those in our sleep and standard you know doing around if you have to put rj45 ends on these two that's another thing in about it there are shielded as well but they take probably about five times as long to do one as it does to a term like now or three they can't five pins 4 preferably we love to put jacks on the end of these as well those one set these are these are all those considerations you wanna you want to start thinking about how bad do you need cat6a I mean if you have a limited budget awesome let's pull this stuff out matter of fact cat 7 is available we don't have any of that today in stock so we're not gonna cover that yeah but that's available I know cat cat a is I believe on the rise I suspect for it I don't know when it's coming out just started talking about yeah so I don't know when we're getting there but in terms of cat 6a it is available you can get the full you know 10 gigabit connections over this so if that's if you have that type of use case like the particular job or doing to install all these which is in the car dealership networks it's great they have the budget for it if you don't have a budget for it just up and down and still even all the way to cat five gigabit connections still really relevant and probably will be for a long time a lot of people are fine with that level of speed because the contend you give me connectors on your computer still a little bit pricey yeah the price doesn't come down that much it's working here and I know someone's screaming there's but time you can buy the easiest one for less than honored I know but are still not standard equipment at most pcs bought here in 2018 but don't worry we'll do a new video as soon as that does become standard I'm like remember back what we thought gigabit was fast enough all right thanks that's it this one to cover these real quick because a lot of people seem to have questions about all the wiring and we're still working on doing some more on-site wiring jobs that comes down to a lot of permission but we will when we aren't busy through the video on everything you have to have the equipment we have just to get all the wiring done like all the tools that we use and everything else so keep watching like subscribe and all that fun stuff and hire us for wiring jobs if you want or in Detroit and the greater Detroit tri-county area it'll go down as far as Toledo and we'll even go all the way to Toledo thanks for watching if you like this video go ahead and click the thumbs up leave us some feedback below to let us know any details what you liked and didn't like as well because we love hearing the feedback or if you just 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Length: 12min 4sec (724 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 06 2018