Things to Know About 10 Gigabit Copper Cabling System

Why We Need 10 Gigabit Copper Cabling System

With the explosive development of information technology, people have higher and higher requirements for information transmission, and the bandwidth of the carrier carrying data transmission also increases tenfold in the short term. Establishment of various large data centers, especially cloud computing centers.

Various video conferences, high-definition television, streaming media communication, and the construction of network infrastructure such as “smart city”, “safe city” and “Internet of things” popular all over the country have put forward new requirements and challenges to the generic cabling system. The current transmission rate of 100Mbps and 100Mbps can not meet the original requirements. Therefore, in addition to the 10 Gigabit high-speed optical fiber transmission system, the 10 Gigabit copper cabling system is also gradually showing its edge. At present, the 10 Gigabit copper cabling system is mainly divided into 10 Gigabit shielded cabling systems and 10 Gigabit unshielded cabling systems. As the name suggests, 10 Gigabit transmission system is a cabling system that can support 10 Gigabit rate transmission.

Features of 10 Gigabit Copper Cabling System

The products of generic cabling involved in data transmission include jumper – module – Horizontal twisted pair – module – jumper – switching equipment (active equipment) – jumper – module – trunk cable – module – jumper from the working area. Each part must meet the requirements of 10 Gigabit transmission. Secondly, the 10 Gigabit copper cabling system must also meet the following characteristics according to the requirements of the white paper on engineering design, construction and testing technology of 10 Gigabit copper cabling system:

• Ensure that the channel performance meets or exceeds the wiring standard and can support 500MHz bandwidth;
• The channel length can be up to 100m, which can support applications with 4 connections;
• Be able to support 10GBASE-T applications;

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• Excellent external crosstalk suppression performance, and relevant products can provide external crosstalk test reports.

Example of 10 Gigabit Copper Cabling System Application

There is a high-end hotel or five-star hotel, which was planned to have a large conference room and multi-functional broadcasting hall at the beginning of its design. Network transmission is required to support smooth multimedia playback, multiple HD video conferences and multiple HD TVs at the same time. When seeing this demand, the first thought should be to use high bandwidth network cabling products. However, most of the hotel’s internal customers are desktop based applications, so 10 Gigabit copper cabling should be the best choice.

Because 10 Gigabit copper cable wiring can not only meet the requirements of various information transmission, but also has relatively low investment cost compared with 10 Gigabit optical cable wiring, but also has advantages in construction, maintenance, port compatibility and so on. From this demand analysis, in addition to erecting single-mode optical fiber or 10 Gigabit multi-mode optical cable for each trunk line, a 10 Gigabit copper cabling system must be adopted for all horizontal lines, including all terminals. In short, to meet the current situation and the needs of the development of network media in the next few years can be regarded as a more reasonable planning and design.

Unshielded or Shielded

10 Gigabit copper cabling is divided into 10 Gigabit shielded cabling systems and 10 Gigabit unshielded cabling systems. What kind of system will be adopted when implementing cabling in specific projects? Discussing the advantages and disadvantages of shielding and non shielding is our heavy point in the later stage.

Those who are in favor of adopting 10 Gigabit unshielded wiring system believe that on the premise of reducing capital investment, as long as it can basically meet the requirements of system transmission, it is OK to use it, and there is no need to spend a lot of investment on using 10 Gigabit shielded system. Those in favor of adopting 10 Gigabit shielded wiring system believe that the current investment of 10 Gigabit shielded wiring system is not much higher than that of non shielded system, and it can carry out data transmission more reliably and safely, which is the guarantee of 10 Gigabit transmission and can save a lot of time in testing.

Conclusion

With the promulgation of 10 Gigabit copper cable (Cat6a) standards such as TIA568B.2-10 and ISO/IEC 11801, 10 Gigabit copper cable has been more and more used in the cabling system of various data centers. However, with the further improvement of the bandwidth demand of network applications and the adoption of data center cabling tor architecture and container data center, 10 Gigabit copper cable will face severe challenges. In a word, 10 Gigabit copper cable has both opportunities and challenges. I believe that when other technologies are developing, 10GBASE-T related technologies with 10 Gigabit copper cable as transmission medium will continue to develop. If you are interested in 10GBASE-T SFP+ transceivers, QSFPTEK has a professional tech team that is always there for you.