HELP: What type of wiring or cabling do I need?
Category 3: Used for standard communication such as analog and digital phones, faxes, modems, bells, chimes, and voice recording.
Category 5: Used for local area networks (LAN). Data speeds of 10 megabits to 100 megabits and beyond.
Category 5e: Used for local area networks (LAN). Data speeds of 100 megabits to 1 gigabit. Minimum standard installs today are done on Category 5e as a baseline; the market is moving away from Category 5. Category 5e provides additional headroom for gigabit bandwidth.
Category 6: Used for local area networks (LAN). Data speeds of 1 gigabit plus. Usually the customer has high bandwidth needs within the local area network for Category 6 to be necessary.
Multimode Fiber: Picks up where copper ends. Used for local area networks (LAN) usually as riser cables between buildings, floors, closets, hubs, routers; however, it can also be used for local workstations. Multimode fiber is used as a "future proofing" solution as it can more than handle any of today's LAN hardware; and is more limited by what type of hardware is plugged into it than it's own physical limitations.
Coaxial Cabling: Used for TV and some video.
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