Superior Essex offers Shielded Twisted Pair Category 6A cables with a plenum FEP jacket. The cable has guaranteed performance to 600 MHz and meets or exceeds ANSI/TIA-568-C.2 for CAT 6A cables required for 10GBASE-T applications. The cable consists of four (4) balanced 23 AWG copper pairs. Each pair is wrapped with a Mylar® backed aluminum foil with the drain wire in the center of all 4 copper pairs. The wrapped pairs are then jacketed with a flexible FEP jacket for plenum applications

Features
• Individually foil shielded pairs
• Exceeds specification ANSI/TIA-568-C.2 for CAT 6A cable performance
• Plenum rated design
• FEP Jacket
• All fluoropolymer construction
• RoHS-compliant
• QuickCount® marking system in feet and meters
• ColorTip® circuit identification system
• Color-coded box labels

Benefits
• Protects against EMI/RFI and provides exceptional NEXT, PSNEXT, ELFEXT, and electrical performance
• Meets 10GBASE-T application requirements for both Insertion Loss and Return Loss and exceeds requirements for alien and internal crosstalk performance
• NFPA 262 fire rating options help to reduce additional expensive materials required to meet building safety codes
• Lower smoke emission in plenum test than PVC
• Resistant to chemical, moisture, thermal exposure
• No heavy metals; no toxic components
• Provides remaining length of cable on reel
• Easily identifiable conductor mates even in low-light environments
• Easily identifiable jacket colors

Specifications
Configuration - Copper pairs each surrounded by aluminum/Mylar® foil with center drain wire and jacket

Pair Count - 4

Conductor - Solid annealed copper

AWG (mm) - 23 (0.57)

Insulation- FEP

Insulation Colors
• Pair 1: ColorTip Light Blue, Blue
• Pair 2: ColorTip Light Orange, Orange
• Pair 3: ColorTip Light Green, Green
• Pair 4: ColorTip Light Brown, Brown

Drain Wire - Tinned copper

Jacket- Low smoke FEP

Characteristic Impedance Ohms - 100 ± 15

Nominal Velocity of Propagation % - 77

Performance Compliance
• UL 444
• NFPA 262
• ANSI/TIA-568-C.2
• Article 800, NEC (NFPA 70)
• RoHS-compliant

NRTL Programs
• UL Verified 6A
• UL, c(UL) or ETL, c(ETL) Listed CMP

Applications
• 10BASE-T through 10GBASE-T Ethernet
• Power over Ethernet (PoE) – IEEE 802.3af
• PoE+ – IEEE 802.3at Type 1 and 2
• ATM and token ring
• Backward compatible to legacy protocols and applications