Anything that goes horizontal or has to be buried I look closely at
fiber as converters and sfp mods are becoming very attractive in price.
Vertical I will only do 200 linear feet and thats pushing it with Cat5e
superior essex copper shield.
The hybrid fiber solution is much more resilient to numerous issues
found when vertical and distance is concerned.
On 06/12/2017 08:40 PM, David Coudron wrote:
As an update on my earlier message. We spent the better part of two
days terminating lots of Cat6a shielded outdoor burial cable. We
used this because we couldn’t get pre-terminated Cat6a, only Cat6 at a
reasonable price (although we may not have spent enough time looking).
These are for longer runs were we are worried about the length
limitation of Cat6 for 10gig. All I can say is what a huge pain
these Cat6a ends are. The loader bars are flimsy as heck, and don’t
typically line up the wires well enough. We got better as the days
went on, but still saw a failure rate of 10-25% terminating these
cables. On normal Cat5e terminations, we are surprised if we get 1
in 100 that are bad. We are looking for something different in the
future. We will continue to buy pre-terminated for runs under 50
meters, and if we can find some decent pricing on Cat6a pre-terminated
we are heading in that direction. Way too much time spent putting
cable ends on…….
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*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *David Milholen
*Sent:* Monday, June 12, 2017 5:38 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Shielded Cat6 recommendation
Cat5E Superior Essex with shielded heads bonded to shield at the radio.
ONE AND DONE!
On 6/8/2017 8:02 AM, Jay Weekley wrote:
Cat 5 should be sufficient but one radio shares a tower with 2 FM
stations so we're having to do everything we can to mitigate
interference. The other problem is a mystery since it's on a
decommission water tank with no other radios than ours.
David Coudron wrote:
We are just starting to install a number of towers where we
are using Mimosa equipment and have run Cat6a for those where
the cabinets won't be on top of the tower. For the ones that
are on top of the tower we ordered pre-terminated cables.
Just too much hassle for the cost. For those where we had to
run cable to the top we ordered new quiktex ends since they
use the regular old crimpers. We couldn't find any ends to
work with our Ez rj45 crimper. We will be terminating those
cables the next few days.
We do have Mimosa equipment installed with Cat5e cable and it
works fine now. We initially had issues with the Ethernet
ports dropping and replaced POEs and were considering
recabling. However fixing the RF link interference issues and
some firmware upgrades have really stabilized those Ethernet
ports now. We haven't had an Ethernet port go down in 10
months since we did that work. (I am currently knocking on
wood. 🙂)
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*Sent:* Thursday, June 8, 2017 7:20:38 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Shielded Cat6 recommendation
I bought some Shireen Cat6 to try. The OD of the insulation on
the Shireen Cat6 (and other Cat6 cables I've found so far)
make it unusable with the EZ-RJ45 plugs. So, I ended up
purchasing new plugs, and should have purchased a new crimper.
I later asked here about using Cat6 with Mimosa and got a
fairly resounding "Cat5e is enough" at the time. In the end,
it seemed like a giant pain for any spot other than having
great interference.
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Jay Weekley
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<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We recently received a recommendation from Mimosa to
replace our
shielded Cat 5 with Cat6. We've been using Shireen lately
and
they have a Cat 6 product. What would you use? Has anyone
had
problems with using Cat 5 with Mimosa?
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