Residential Composite Cable

To achieve this balance, the center-to-center distance, or centricity, between the copper conductors of DataTwist 350 Bonded-Pairs remains fixed and constant along the length of the cable. Centricity helps ensure the signal does not radiate or bleed off the Bonded-Pair and the pair cancels out incoming noise. Bonded-Pair Cables Provide Installation Benefits Typically, when cables are installed they are pulled on, bent around corners, and may kink when coming off the reel. All of these factors can change the physical properties of the cable, which in turn can degrade the cables’ electrical performance. In order to demonstrate the effects a typical installation can have on cable, Belden selected several industry-leading unbonded-pair Category 5e cables and subjected them to an Installation Stress Test. Belden then conducted the same tests on its DataTwist 350 Bonded-Pair cables. The RL (Return Loss) values of the Category 5e Belden Bonded-Pair cable (DataTwist 350) vs. a leading industry 350 MHz Category 5e cable — both before and after installation — show that the unbonded-pair cable’s RL degraded by more than 12dB, or more than 15 times their before-installation values. Belden’s Bonded-Pair cables exhibited little change in RL performance. (For more detailed information, please refer to Belden Technical Bulletin TB-66, The Impact of Typical Installation Stresses on Cable Performance.)

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