This progress was necessary to fulfil all requirements of the new Gigabit Ethernet standard like signal transmission via all of the eight (instead of only four as before) conductors of a cable.įor machine vision STEMMER IMAGING recommends cables of category Cat6 or higher. With the establishment of the 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet) standard the Cat5 cable was developed further into Cat5e (Cat5 enhanced).

Some cables of this category contain up to 100 pairs of conductors though. Twisted pair cable with operating frequency of up to 100MHz.Ĭat5 and Cat5e cables consist mostly of four pairs of conductors. STEMMER IMAGING recommends using at least Cat6 cables for standard machine

Therefore parasitics are further reduced. Compared to previous cable categories like Cat5, Cat6 cables have a biggerĭiameter.