Category 5e UTP is standardized. Why can I simply use any Category 5e UTP cable with Raritan products?
Because the intended application of UTP cabling is the transmission of digital data, cable specifications are optimized for that application. However, because video data is by its very nature analog, Raritan’s exclusive technology which enables such high-bandwidth video information to be transmitted over relatively thinly-shielded Category 5 UTP and Category 6 UTP cables requires even stricter tolerances for certain cable properties. One particular UTP cable characteristic has a large impact on how well your Raritan system performs: delay skew. UTP cabling consists of four “twisted pairs” of wire, each carrying one set of data. In order to minimize cross-interference between the pairs, each pair must be twisted at slightly different rates (twists/foot). Over long lengths of cable, however, slight differences in twist rates results in measurably different rates of data transmission among each twisted pair. The arrival time delta is called “delay skew”. How does this affect your Raritan
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