The Samples: 6 Cat 6A Systems

The objective of the study was the qualification of UTP and STP systems for Class EA under live 10 Gb/s traffic.

The test candidates were three unshielded and three shielded Class EA systems from six different market-leading cabling infrastructure manufacturers:



  • System 00: U/UTP
  • System 01: U/UTP
  • System 02: U/UTP
  • System 03: F/UTP
  • System 04: S/FTP
  • System 05: S/FTP

These six cabling systems represent the global market range of Class EA systems.
However, System 00 failed in ANEXT during the pre-qualification testing and was abandoned for this study!