Though we’ve never used their cables, [Blue Jeans Cable] out of Seattle, WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they ...

Especially as they build up their Internet of Things environments, businesses will need three things in the near future: greater LAN speeds, higher power levels for PoE ports, and more connections.

Every so often, we get questions from people who plan to install Ethernet cable in their homes. The most frequent question we get is, "what's the difference between Cat 5e and Cat 6 cable, and which ...

Belden 1872A MediaTwist Cat 6 cable. Last month, we covered unshielded twisted pairs (UTP) to carry audio. The highest-quality UTP is computer cable, premise/data cable. It's called Cat 5, Cat 5e or ...

Joel Keller spent more than a decade in IT before becoming a full-time journalist. He has written for The New York Times, Parade and others. A robust network is a critical component of business ...

Ethernet cables are a simple way to improve the speed of data transfers. That’s largely why, as businesses continue to improve their networking solutions to support high-speed transfers, the global ...

Category 7 Ethernet seems like a great way to futureproof your home network but there are a couple issues. The first issue is that any use case for these cables will likely max out at 10 Gbps, which ...