Cable Matters 160012 Cat 6A Shielded Ethernet Cable 1ft White 5-Pack

Five-Pack for Dense Patch Panels

This 160012 five-pack supplies five identical Cat 6A patch cables, each one foot long, for short runs inside racks, wall plates or crowded switch ports. The white jacket and snagless boots keep dense installations tidy and make cable tracing simple for network technicians and home-lab builders.

10 Gbps Over 550 MHz Shielded Link

Each cable uses 26 AWG bare copper conductors with SSTP/SFTP shielding and gold-plated RJ45 contacts to deliver 10 Gbps Ethernet at up to 550 MHz, meeting TIA/EIA 568-C.2 Category 6A requirements. The foil-and-braid screen suppresses EMI and alien crosstalk in electrically noisy environments.

Handles 10GBASE-T; Stops at 10 Gbps

The design comfortably carries 10GBASE-T traffic for servers, NAS units, PoE gear and 2.5/5 Gbps uplinks, but it does not support the 40 Gbps or 2 000 MHz operation of Cat 8. Buyers needing longer reaches, higher frequencies or unshielded UTP flexibility should select a different cable type.