page 1/5 Application: High Density Switch & Hub Working area cord and telecommunications equipment cord in Local Area Networking environments Support current and future Category 6 applications, such as: 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet), 100 Base-T, 10 Base-T, FDDI, ATM General standards: ISO/IEC 11801 2nd edition, 2002 EN 50173-1, 2002 ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-B.2-1, 2001 IEC 60603-7-1, 2009 FCC 47, Part 68, Subpart F IEC 603-7, 1990 (for plug) Construction Figure 1 Belden CAT 6 modular cord assembly 1. Patch cord structure (In figure 1) Cable Jacket: LSNH (Low Smoke Zero Halogen) Plug Housing: Polycarbonate (PC), UL 94V-2 rated Contact Blade: Phosphor bronze plated with 1.27um gold over 2.54um nickel undercoat Assembly: 568B on both sides Boot: PVC (Drawing referred to PX103800-811)
2. Patch cable structure (Shown in Figure 2) TECHNICAL DATA SHEET Family code C2424SOLPCORD page 2/5 1 2 3 4 Figure 2 CAT 6 solid UTP patch cable 1) Conductor Diameter 2) Insulation Nominal diameter over insulation 3) Cable core Pair Number of pairs Colour code pair 1 Colour code pair 2 Colour code pair 3 Colour code pair 4 Solid bare copper ETP AWG 23 (0.58mm) Polyethylene(PE) 1.03 ± 0.06 mm 2 twisted insulated conductors 4, all twisted together White & Blue / Blue White & Orange / Orange White & Green / Green White & Brown / Brown 4) Jacket LSNH Diameter 6.5± 0.2 mm Color Refer to PS-08008 Standard text: BELDEN SOLID UTP CAT 6 LSNH MODULAR CORD 4PR/23 AWG
page 3/5 Technical information 1. Electrical characteristics The patch cords are tested on the coils for NEXT and return loss. (>180mm diameter) The equipment is: Fluke DTX1800 (Fluke Networks part number DTX-1800) Firmware revision 2.22 and up with Patch cords test head adapter (Fluke Networks part number DTX-PCU6S) And the test setup is shown in Figure 3. Patch cords under test (coiled in 180mm diameter) Fluke DTX Main Fluke DTX remote Figure 3. NEXT & Return loss Test setup for the patch cords NEXT requirement: 1dB margin compared to TIA/EIA-568-B.2 Limit (See Annex 1) Return loss requirement: 1dB margin compared to TIA/EIA-568-B.2 Limit (See Annex 1) Current Rating: 1.5 A Insulation Resistance: 100 MΩ min. Contact Resistance: 20 mω max. Dielectric Strength: 500 VAC (rms) Voltage: 72 VDC max.
page 4/5 2. Mechanical characteristics Insertion Life: 750 mating cycles Temperature rating installation: 0/50 Temperature rating operation and storage: -20/60 Part number structure Packaging Each patch cord is packed in a plastic bag with identification label. Each carton to be filled in line with the defined packaging quantity for the different lengths. Change history: Length in Metres Quantity per carton 0.5 200 1 150 2 100 3 70 5 50 10 25 15 20 2010-03-05: First issue of this specification.
page 5/5 Annex 1 Required Electrical performance for the CAT 6 UTP solid patch cord Belden declares this product to be in compliance with the environmental regulations EU RoHS (Directive 2002/95/EC, 27 January 2003); this is valid for all material produced after the RoHS compliant date for this product.