Its not really Cat5 but Cat6, the twist is very carefully done and at the
moment its proprieatry from each manufacture (like Krone) ie you have to
use their patch cables and wall sockets to get gigabit ethernet, so its not
cheap.

There is a hell of a difference between 90m of Cat6 and 4km,
particualary when the cabling neds a stretch of imagination to even call
in Cat3. ADSL is impressive really.

We just did Palmerston North Poly in Krone Cat6 and the aim is to run
video over it ultimately. In the states there are some TV stations that run it
already!

Thing

>>> HAMISH MACEWAN <hamish@usa.net> 13/May/1999 12:00pm >>>
With some of the discussion here pointing out that ADSL is not running
over
cat 5, here's a pointer to some developments in the IEEE802.3ab gigabit
implementation space that suggests, to me anyway, that if they ban get
1000 Mb
(small b, bit)/second performance over cat 5, 6Mb/s is not a big ask of
copper
pairs, despite the extra distance.

http://www.broadcom.com/docs/PR990511.html

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