Cat 6 Network Patch Cord in CCA -Beige 12.5 m (40 ft) - Ethernet - LAN Patch Cable

CCA Cat6 network patch cables comes in multiple length options. Our cables are made using high quality CCA wire and high quality gold plated modular connectors and strain relief boot. Each cable is tested to provide best performance for your home or office network. These cables provide exceptional transmission performance and low signal losses.

About CCA

When installing communication cables CCA allows cables to utilize all of the benefits that copper has to offer while maintaining a much more affordable price tag and helping to protect the world’s limited supply of copper. CCA is made by bonding a layer of pure copper onto an aluminum core. While drawn our CCA obviously contains less copper than pure copper cable it delivers virtually the same conductivity with only slightly higher resistance. How is this possible? It has to do with an electrical phenomenon known as “skin effect.”

Skin Effect

Skin effect is the tendency of an alternating current at high frequencies (the current used in Cat5e and Cat6 cables for data transfer) to become distributed in a conductor so that there is more current density near the surface (or skin) of the conductor. This density decreases as you go deeper into the conductor. Because skin effect only happens at high frequencies it's better to use pure copper cable in all low frequency applications such as your home power cables. Because of skin effect you can use a less expensive metal for the core and use copper on the outer layer to achieve the virtually the same conductivity. Good quality CCA is all about finding a balance. Too much copper is a waste of materials yet too little copper decreases the cable's effeciency and quality.

Please Note : Not suitable for POE application.