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 ...

If you're an old geezer like me, the idea of using unshielded cable to run audio is still a pretty new idea. Sure, those IT people who installed your computer network have been using unshielded ...

The transmission medium is the physical vehicle that facilitates the transport of information. Guided transmission media use a solid medium (cable) for transmission. There are many cables, but the ...

A thin-diameter wire (22 to 26 gauge) commonly used for telephone and network cabling. The wires are twisted around each other to minimize interference from other twisted pairs in the cable. Alexander ...

This article was updated March 31, 2023. It was originally published Jan. 8, 2016. Engineers and designers who don’t regularly work with CAT data of cables, and even some that do, can get confused ...

Why should twisted-pair cabling, used in large quantities to carry 4-kHz voice signals in the phone system, suddenly work well at 100 MHz and beyond? The simple answer is that it doesn’t. All ...

The transmission of serial-digital video above 1Gb/s (as required by the DVI, HDMI, and DisplayPort video-interface standards) has elevated the requirements for performance in the cables that connect ...

Spoiler summary: It only takes -60 dB of mode conversion to fail an EMC compliance test if this common signal gets out on unshielded twisted pair cables. If a common mode choke is used, as much as -20 ...