cat 8 cable?

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We've just been given drawings for a new build. One of the requirements is cat 8 to each room.

Anyone got any experience?
Struggling to find supplier too. CEF are 'looking in to it for us' :rolleyes:
 
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Either a typo or they are looking way way way into the future, the nearest we have now is cat 6 , which has an x shaped cross member inside it to sepperate the pairs. Cat 8 Well i think they are having a giraffe


Nick
 
Cat 6a is the highest copper based data standard, it copes with emerging applications such as 10GBase-T, 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

I'm pretty sure there's been a typo on your design / build instruction.

What's the work, multi domestic flats, commercial desk top or data centre?
 
Cheers for the replies.

We thought a typo too but got in touch with the contractor and they assured us it's cat8 they need. The bloke who's house this is going to be is apparently an IT specialist and he's wanting to future proof it!

I've been googling it and it does seem to exist but can't find any suppliers.
 
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I have seen reference to CAT 8 on AV forums.
Quote ad "Cat 8 cable is the cutting edge of twisted-pair copper data communications and is the 'Hidden Heart of MediaX'. MediaX Cat 8 operates with a bandwidth of 1200 MHz (1.2 GHz) and is capable of 1400MHz. It will take the satellite signal from the proposed Sky HDTV broadcasts that are set to start in 2006...

Perhaps this site may help Singlepoint . Do not seem to advertise prices but I believe they sell the product/kit - might be worth emailing ?
 
Cheers for that. Definately email them, and have look at avforums.

Does look quite good on that site, but always better to get some first hand experience.
 
ask your so called builder what make of cable you must use.
 
Absolutely you must do that, and ask about makes of terminators etc, as I'll bet there are no ratified standards for Cat 8 yet....
 
Absolutely you must do that, and ask about makes of terminators etc, as I'll bet there are no ratified standards for Cat 8 yet....

Your right, there's not. As far as i'm aware, at the moment Krone's Truenet CopperTen cable is the only cable that has passed all of the third party tests against the TIA category 6A standard. And that was only in May of this year.

CAT8 is a figment of the builders imagination
 
No - "Cat 8 cable" does exist, but it's just a label that's been applied to a type of cable being made. There may be more than one company making it, and they may all be the same type of thing, but there'll be no official standard for performance, and there'll be no guarantee of interoperability between different makes of cable, plugs, sockets, patch panels, switches etc.

It's an ever-accelerating race - I expect "Cat 9" will be available soon.

I wonder, though, if people in awe of cables with GHz bandwidths ever consider that hi-def DVDs transfer at around 50 megabits/sec, and that a Cat 6a cable (500MHz) will carry 10Gbit/s?

As they sit at their PC reading the specs on their hi-def monitor, do they consider that the DVI cable between the two is capped at 165MHz?

When they tire of the Internet, and turn to watch their shiny new HD TV, do they consider that even if it has the latest 1.3 HDMI interface that's only 340MHz, and that their shiny new Blu-Ray player would quite happily deliver full resolution video and audio through HDMI 1.0 at 165MHz?
 
Cat 6a is the highest copper based data standard
<s>nope, cat7 is also standardised. I'm not aware of a cat 8 standard but it wouldn't surprise me if it either already exists or is in the process of being standardised.</s>

Seems I was slightly wrong, according to wikipedia cat 7 is "An informal name applied to ISO/IEC 11801 Class F cabling"

Either way if I were you I would ask the customer to clarify if it was a typo and if not exactly what cable they want you to use.
 
Well yes and no.

There is a standard which some people call "Cat 7", but that's not its official name, and it's not a member of the EIA-568 family like Cat 5/Cat 5e/Cat 6/Cat 6a are/were...

PS - damn - you must have changed your post just before I posted this....
 
Cheers for the replies folks.

BAS i agree with what you said 100% about people being in awe of newer technology. I really do think this is whats going on here.

As i said before the bloke who's house it will be is apparently an I.T. specialist. In my personal opinion it's just someone wanting to be ahead of everyone else. (Even though in reality there's still a lot of years left in the current standards.)

I'll make sure we get proper clarification in brand of cable etc. To be honest it's seeming quite hard to source, so we've been considering asking the customer to provide all the i.t. and networking equipement.

Again cheers for the replies folks, if i get an more specific details i'll let everyone know.

P.S. It does look impressive on the singlepointnetworks site TonyWarrington posted for me to look at :oops:
 
Perhaps this site may help Singlepoint . Do not seem to advertise prices but I believe they sell the product/kit - might be worth emailing ?

The copper in those twisted pairs looks pretty thick :eek:

This is an interesting thread as I wasn't even aware that Cat8 existed. Considering that gigabit speeds can be run over Cat5 I'm not sure where this would be used as gigabit over Cat5 is more than enough for medical imaging etc ?.
 

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