UTP Cat.

8
Carrera Tobar Adrian Arturo
Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Quito, Ecuador;
acarrerato@est.ups.edu.ec

In the new requirements on speed data transmission, a new

UTP category has launched on market in the first months on this
year, this new UTP Cable is the category 8 that type of UTP
cable is in order about Gigahertz, in preliminary studies the
bandwidth of this UTP is around 40 GB/s, but the only cons is
the effective distance in this case is only for 30 meters.
In this paper I explain main characteristics about UTP cat.8,
as we know all UTP cable are on a shield cable protection, UTP
Fig. 1. Representation Cat 8.1 and 8.2
cat.8 will required shield cabling, the most common on
construction are 22 AWG S/FTP cabling and also on this cat.8,
we have 2 different types: Class I and Class II. In the experiments on 2012 for IEEE investigators have the
In Class I is based on the common RJ-45 connector with a following results for Return Loss in 2 GHz test.
bandwidth around 25 GB/s for 30 meters, different for Class II
that is on non-RJ45 connector with a bandwidth around 40 GB/s
for 30 meters. [1]
In another pro for cat.8 is supply power for example if the
case on data center the supply power is the same if we use a
10GBASE-T.
Other con for cat.8 is the use only for 2 transmission channels
versus Cat.6 and Cat.7 with 4 channels each one in this case that
maybe consider a con for cat.8 until for new relaunched for this
UTP Cable that has designed for supported emerging to IEEE
25BASE-T and 40BASE-T only for the 30 meters versus optical
fiber reaches up to 500 meters.
In this paper, we collect measures that present in the
following table on comparison on cat.7 and cat.8

TABLE 1: Fig. 2. Return Loss diagramm

Attribute UTP CABLE
CAT.7 & 7A CAT.8 As we could observed, the return loss on 2 GHz is under 10
Frequency 1 GHz 2 GHZ decibelius in a distance 5 meters.[2]
Maximum 25GBASE-T REFERENCES
Data Rate 10GBASE-T 40GBASE-T
[1] Angelina Li, "Do You know about Cat 8 Cable?", (paper2017), http://bi
Distance 100 meters 30 meters http://angelina23.over-blog.com/2016/09/do-you-know-about-cat-8-
Number of cable.
connectors 4 2 [2] P.Kish,A.Pelletier,W.Laresn,T. Brillhart “Cabling Demonstration”
in a channel IEEE 802 Theory and Techniques., article number 1112, pp. 13, 2012
Cable Shielded Shielded
http://www.ieee802.org/3/NGBASET/public/nov12/larsen_01a_1112_ngbt.pd
Construction
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Connector NON RJ-45 Class I: RJ-45
Type Class II: NON RJ-45