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For permanently installed cable runs, one normally uses "solid core" (as opposed to "stranded" or "patch") cable terminated onto IDC type "punch down" blocks.
100m is a pretty standard size for "bulk" cabe, at that length it often comes supplied in a (cardboard) box (rather than a drum) albeit that the box design is supposed to prevent (perhaps "deter" would be a better term) chances of the cable snagging, coiling, kinking, etc. as you pull it out.
There are some snake oil salesmen out there that sell a form of cable called "Copper Clad Aluminium" (CCA) which isn't allowed in the proper "cat" standards (which mandate the use of pure copper conductors.) Sometimes they try and pass it off as "catX certified," "catX equivalent," "CatX tested" and other BS such as "made up" cats such as cat5a, cat6e, none of which exist at time of posting. Avoid such things, it performs less well and is outside standards. If the price looks too good to be true, it probably is.
If you stick to reputable suppliers that have been around for a while, you'll probably be fine. I've used Excel, Black Box, RS Online to name but a few for years, but there are plenty of others out there.
As I often say, to actually be cat whatever, the work needs to be done to the relevant installation stipulations and it needs to be tested with some very expensive test gear - there's more to it that just buying catX bits and bobs. But that's not to say it won't work for something like Gigabit ethernet which is well within the performance headroom of the cat5e and better standards. You have to do a spectacularly bad job for it to not work, poor termination is usually the biggest culprit and take care not to kink or crush the cable - in any corners it needs to be "curved" (min radius something like 4x the cable diameter) not "hammered" around any 90 degree bends. |
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2-12-2019 05:07:08
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