Though we’ve never used their cables, [Blue Jeans Cable] out of Seattle, WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they ...

Testing Cat. 6 equipment may be easy in theory, but without a clear understanding of how it's done, it can be a time-consuming process. When it comes time to measure your Cat. 6 equipment, it's ...

Interoperability has been the first thing on end-users’ minds since TIA published ANSI/TIA/EIA-568-B.2-1, its standard for Cat. 6 cabling, and six months after the passage of that standard the ...

Joel Keller spent more than a decade in IT before becoming a full-time journalist. He has written for The New York Times, Parade and others. A robust network is a critical component of business ...

We were recently perusing facebook and came across an article written and shared by our friends over at Blue Jeans Cable, entitled, “Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog?”. We were pretty shocked to discover ...

These days, anything with copper in it is expensive. If you doubt that, a walk into any Home Depot electrical department, where the wire is locked up tighter than Fort Knox, will prove otherwise.

Belden 1872A MediaTwist Cat 6 cable. Last month, we covered unshielded twisted pairs (UTP) to carry audio. The highest-quality UTP is computer cable, premise/data cable. It's called Cat 5, Cat 5e or ...