Cat 6 outdoor U/UTP

Cat 6 outdoor U/UTP is the outdoor and burial version of Cat 6: a UV- and weather-resistant PE sheath for building-to-building links and camera installations. Supplied to order; the lead time is stated in the quote.

Cat 6 outdoor U/UTP is an unscreened four-pair LAN cable built for outdoor, duct and direct-burial routing between buildings and to external equipment, supporting Class E links to ISO/IEC 11801 and EN 50173 up to 250 MHz. Each conductor is a solid bare copper wire of AWG 23 (nominal 0.57 mm) with solid polyethylene (PE/HDPE) insulation; two cores are twisted into a pair and the four pairs (4×2×AWG 23) are laid up around a central cross-filler under a black, UV-stabilised polyethylene (PE) outer sheath. Unlike an indoor PVC cable, the PE sheath resists sunlight (UV), moisture, cold and mechanical stress, and the cable is normally gel-filled (petroleum-jelly flooding compound) or fitted with a water-blocking tape/yarn so that moisture cannot travel along the core, which is essential for buried and ducted runs. Being U/UTP it carries no metallic screen. It supports 1000BASE-T and 10GBASE-T (up to 55 m) plus PoE/PoE+/PoE++ and is supplied on reels or in pull-boxes. For long outdoor spans and lightning/earth-potential exposure a screened (F/UTP) outdoor variant or an armoured / figure-8 messenger variant is available; a double-sheath (PE over an inner PVC) heavy-duty version is also offered. Note: an all-outdoor PE cable is not fire-rated for permanent indoor runs, so transition to an indoor CPR-rated cable at the building entry (or observe the permitted indoor entry length).

Also known as: outdoor network cable