Certifying a twisted pair copper cabling system for the deployment of 10 Gigabit per second Ethernet
Certifying a twisted pair copper cabling system for the deployment of 10 Gigabit per second Ethernet. Today, 10 Gigabit/sec Ethernet (10 GbE) finds application over fiber optic cabling in the data center, in riser cabling, and in campus backbones, but widespread use of 10 GbE over twisted-pair copper cabling (10GBASE T) is going to take off soon. Active devices like switches, servers, and NIC cards are becoming available to support 10GBASE-T. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards committee approved the 10GBASE T standard in June 2006. This standard defines the minimum level of performance for the transmission medium, the twisted pair copper cabling. In addition, the cabling industry developed new cabling standards, Augmented Category 6 (Cat 6A) and Augmented Class E (Class EA), to support a new generation of very high throughput network technologies such as 10 GbE.
