CATEGORY 6 250MHz

GEL FILLED OUTDOOR

LAN CABLE

APPLICATIONS COMPLIANCES AS/NZS 3080 (CAT-6)

ISO/IEC 11801 (CAT-6)
Suitable for high speed data applications in Local Area ANSI/TIA 568-C (CAT-6)
Networks. Conventional category 6 LAN cable is not AS/ACIF S008
suitable for external or underground use. Moisture build up
will affect critical electrical characteristics of an unprotected CONSTRUCTION Round cable, cross web design.
underground cable. A UV resistant black polyethylene
sheath ensures protection against environmental CONDUCTOR Plain Annealed Copper Wire
degradation. The addition of gel filling provides protection (23 AWG)
from water ingress protecting the core from corrosion and
water travelling down the inside of the jacket to the outlet in INSULATION High Speed Data Grade Polyolefin
the event that the cable is breached. Only water blocked Pair 1 – White/Blue & Blue
cables are allowed to be installed underground enforced by Pair 2 – White/Orange & Orange
the Australian Communications Authority Wiring Rules, Pair 3 – White/Green & Green
AS/ACIF S009, effective from 1 January 2004. Pair 4 – White/Brown & Brown.
Core OD = 1.10mm (Max)
Guaranteed CAT-6 performance to 250MHz for Class E
Links & Channels. WATER BLOCKING Gel filled
• 1.2 Gbps ATM
• 10 Base-T (IEEE 802.3) SHEATH Linear Low Density Polyethylene
• 100 VG-AnyLAN (Black) UV Resistant
• 100 Base-T (IEEE 802.3) Cable printed with metre marking
• 100 Mbps TP-PMD (ANSI X3T9.5)
• 1000 Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet)
• 4/16 Mbps Token Ring (IEEE 802.5) ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
• 52/155 Mbps ATM
• 622 Mbps ATM Installation Temperature: -10’C to 40’C
• Broadband and baseband analogue video Operating Temperature: -25’C to 60’C
• Digital video
• Supports full and half duplex operation

Item Number Nominal Conductor Approx. Min Standard Packing

Overall Mass Bending Reels
Diameter Number of Number & kg/km Radius
Pairs Diameter of (mm)
Wires
mm (No./mm) 305m 500m

24147016 6.7 4 1/0.57 51 41

IMPORTANT NOTICES:
- This cable is waterblocked to the requirements of AS/ACIF S008. During installation both ends of the cable
should be sealed to prevent ingress of moisture from the installation pathway.

- Cables should enter terminating hardware enclosures only from below to prevent creep of gel filling and prevent water
transported on or under the sheath from reaching the terminals or associated equipment.

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Electrical Characteristics
Property Value Units

DC Conductor Resistance Max 8.9 Ω/100m

Maximum d.c. Resistive Unbalance Individual Pair 2%
Mutual Capacitance Nom. @1kHz 54 nF/km
Capacitance Unbalance pair/ground Max. @1kHz 160 pF/100m
Input Impedance 1-100 MHz 100+15 Ω
100-250 MHz 100+22 Ω
Characteristic Impedance 1-250 MHz 100+15 Ω
Maximum Delay Skew 1-250 MHz 35 ns/100m
Velocity of Propagation 65% Speed of Light

Frequency Attenuation NEXT PS-NEXT ELFEXT PS-ELFEXT LCL Return

Loss

MHz dB/100m dB dB dB/100m dB/100m dB dB

(max.) (min.) (min.) (min.) (min.) (min.) (min.)

0.772 1.83 76.0 74.0 - - - -

1 2.03 74.3 72.3 68.0 65.0 50.0 20.0
4 3.78 66.3 63.3 56.0 53.0 44.0 23.1
10 5.95 60.3 57.3 48.0 45.0 40.0 25.0
16 7.55 57.2 54.2 43.9 40.9 38.0 25.0
20 8.47 55.8 52.8 42.0 39.0 37.0 25.0
31.25 10.67 52.9 49.9 38.1 35.1 35.1 23.6
62.5 15.38 48.4 45.4 32.1 29.1 32.0 21.5
100 19.80 45.3 42.3 28.0 25.0 30.0 20.1
200 28.98 40.8 37.8 22.0 19.0 27.0 18.0
250 32.85 39.3 36.3 20.0 17.0 26.0 17.3

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Note: All Limits stated are based on measurements made at or corrected to 20 C.
Attenuation, NEXT, FEXT, RL and LCL are obtained by swept frequency measurements
Characteristic Impedance is derived by applying a smoothing function to swept frequency input impedance
measurements
NVP is supplied for installation equipment to return cable jacket length.

These cables are rated as Extra Low Voltage (ELV), voltage rating = 50 VAC rms. Minimum segregation
distances from power cables should be followed as mandated by AS/ACIF S009.

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