Cat 5 Cable Installation and Structured Cat5 Cabling

Milton Keynes Cabling has been installing and certifying Structured Cabling, Data Networking (LANs), Electrical Cabling & Telephone Systems for over 20 years. We are skilled in the design and installation of structured electrical cabling, wiring Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6 & Cat7 cabling, Voice cabling, TV and Video infrastructures, multi-room hifi systems, home automation, Audio Visual cables, Multimode & Singlemode Fibre.

Cat 5, (Cat5  Cat 5e ) short for Category 5e, is the current preferred industry standard for network and telephone wiring. Cat5 is an unshielded twisted pair type cable exclusively designed for high signal integrity. The cable consists of four pairs of 24-guage twisted copper pairs terminating in an RJ-45 jack. If a wire is certified as Category 5 and not just twisted pair wire, then it will have "Cat5" printed on the shielding.

The actual Cat5 standard describes specific electrical properties of the wire / cables, but Cat5 is most widely known as being rated for its Ethernet capability of 100 Mbit/s. Category 5 cables come with three twists per inch of each twisted pair of 24 gauge copper wires within the cable. The twisting of the cable helps to decrease electrical interference and crosstalk. Each wire in a Cat5e cable is insulated with a plastic (FEP) which has low dispersion. The importance of this insulation is that the dielectric constant of the plastic does not depend mainly on frequency. Installation of Structured Cat5 cabling is the common in the modern office building and even more frequently in homes.

Our test results are comprehensive, using the latest Fluke DTX1800 series cable analyser. This unit exceeds specification requirements to test Cat5e/Cat6 and Cat7. The unit will analyse the Attenuation, Return Loss, Wiremap, NEXT, ELFEXT, PSNEXT, PSELFEXT and length/delay. Giving you, the client, peace of mind and confidence in the network cabling that has been installed.