Category 6 cable pin-outs

[CSCO10881970]

I am used of using the Cat5 cabling on my working environment and now they want to move to using the Category 6 (1000Base-T) cable. Could someone show me on how could I do the CrossOver, Straight, RollOver cabling Pin-assingment on a Cat6 cable using the Cisco standard...

Thanks....

[mhussein]

Hi,

The crossover pinout is the same for Cat 5, 5e and 6. For 1000base-T all 4 wire pairs are used, and Cat 6 is not really a requirment for gigabit; Cat 5e and most Cat 5 meet the specs.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/6000hw/inst_aug/0bcabcon.htm#1003670

HTH,

Mustafa

[CSCO10881970]

Thanks, for the answer, I'l be trying it on my own.

A friend of mine keeps on insisting that Cat5 cable can't work using the Gigabit.

[mhussein]

Cat5 should work:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/6000hw/6500_ins/0bcabcon.htm#wp1050890

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/473/132.html#cat_6500

http://bwccat.belden.com/ecat/pdf/1624P.pdf

However, IMHO, upgrading to premium quality Cat6 or even Cat6e is a good investment:

http://bwcecom.belden.com/MASTER%20CATALOG%20PDF/PDFS_links%20within%20docs/11_Networking/11.0_Networking.pdf