Specifications - ADC 5e Specification Sheet

Basic Structured Cabling Systems
Category 5e 4-Pair Riser Data Cable

Specifications

CONSTRUCTION
Conductors:
Insulation:
Pairing:
Jacket:
Nominal outer diameter:
ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Conductor DC resistance (maximum):
DC resistance unbalance (maximum):
Mutual capacitance (maximum):
Operating temperature (maximum):
Operating voltage (maximum):
Worst case cable skew:
Nominal velocity of propagation:
Fitted
Freq Impedance
(MHz) (Ohms)
Spec
1 100 +/- 15
4 100 +/- 15
8 100 +/- 15
10 100 +/- 15
16 100 +/- 15
20 100 +/- 15
25 100 +/- 15
31.25 100 +/- 15
62.5 100 +/- 15
100 100 +/- 15
155 100 +/- 15
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Insertion Loss
(dB/100m)
Max Spec
1.9 2.0
3.9 4.1
5.5 5.8
6.2 6.5
7.8 8.2
8.8 9.3
9.9 10.4
11.0 11.7
15.8 17.0
20.2 22.0
25.4 ––
• + 1 - 9 5 2 - 9 3 8 - 8 0 8 0
24 AWG solid bare copper
Polyolefin
Short, staggered pair lays
Lead-free, flame retardant PVC
4.7 mm (.185")
9.38 Ω/100 meters (28.6 Ω/1000 ft) @ 20 °C (68 °F)
2%
5.6 nF/100 meters (17 pF/ft)
75 °C (167 °F)
300 VDC
25 nS/100 meters (25 nS/328 ft)
69%
Return Loss Pair-Pair NExT
(dB/100m) (dB/100m)
Min Spec Min
30.1 20.0 73.4
27.5 23.0 66.7
31.3 24.5 61.5
28.6 25.0 60.1
31.2 25.0 53.8
30.8 25.0 57.5
30.5 24.3 52.3
31.2 23.6 49.4
27.6 21.5 46.6
23.0 20.1 45.3
23.0 –– 45.3
• 1 - 8 0 0 - 3 6 6 - 3 8 9 1
PSNExT
(dB/100m)
Spec Min Spec
65.3 70.9 62.3
56.3 65.0 53.3
51.8 59.7 48.8
50.3 57.6 47.3
47.2 52.9 44.2
45.8 54.5 42.8
44.3 53.0 41.3
42.9 47.3 39.9
38.4 44.4 35.4
35.3 42.6 32.3
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