What is Twisted Pair Cable? | Twisted Pair Cable Advantages and Disadvantages.

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What is Twisted Pair Cable? | Twisted Pair Cable Advantages and Disadvantages.

As in the Previous article we had seen Coaxial cables and Types. So lets have a look on What is Twisted Pair Cable? | Twisted Pair Cable Advantages and Disadvantages in Network Media Transmission. 

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Twisted Pair Cables

Twisted pair cable is a very important network media. It can be used for phone communication and cable Ethernet networks. Twisted pair cabling is a type of wiring in which two conductors of a single circuit are twisted together for the purposes of cancelling out electromagnetic interface (EMI) from external sources. 

There are two kinds of twisted cable, UTP and STP.

What is Twisted Pair Cable? 

UTP:-                                    

UTP means Unshielded Twisted pair, which is the copper media and inherited from telephony, which can be used for increasingly higher data rates, and is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for horizontal wiring, the connection between, and including, the outlet and the termination in the communication closet.

What is Twisted Pair Cable? 

Advantages of UTP:

• The advantage of UTP is that they are very flexible, low cost media, and can be used for either voice or data communications.

Disadvantages of UTP:

• The main disadvantages with UTP is the bandwidth. We cannot achieve high bandwidth with UTP cables.

What is Twisted Pair Cable? 

STP:-

STP cable is Shielded Twisted Pair copper conductive netting or casing, performed with individually or with external conductive shield around all pairs. It is heavier and more difficult to  manufacture, but it can extraordinarily enhance the signalling rate in a given transmission plot. Twisting gives cancellation of magnetically induced fields and currents on a pair conductors.

Advantages of STP:

• The main advantage of STP is that it ensures greater protection from all types of external interface than unshielded twisted pair cable.

Disadvantages of STP:

• The Disadvantage is, It is more expensive than UTP cables.

UTP     Category	Data     Rate	Max.   Length	Application
CAT1	Up to 1Mbps	-	Old Telephone Cable
CAT2	Up to 4Mbps	-	Token Ring Network
CAT3	Up to 10Mbps	100m	Token Ring and 10BASE-T Ethernet
CAT4	Up to 16Mbps	100m	Token Ring Network
CAT5	Up to 100Mbps	100m	Token Ring, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet
CAT5e	Up to 1Gbps	100m	Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
CAT6	Up to 10Gbps	100m	Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Ethernet
CAT6a	Up to 10Gbps	100m	Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Ethernet
CAT7	Up to 10Gbps	100m	Gigabit Ethernet, 10G Ethernet
CAT8	Up to 40Gbps	30m	40G Ethernet

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