Belden 7860ENS Cat 6 Cable

A Belden 7860ENS CAT 6 Data / Networking cable, bonded SF / UTP LSNH with Belden's Datatwist ®. It is ideal for horizontal and building backbone supporting the Category 6 and 5e applications including 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet), 100 Base-T, FDDI and ATM.

Cable Construction

Conductor Material: Solid bare copper ETP
Conductor Diameter: AWG 23
Insulation Material: Polyethylene
Nominal Diameter over Insulation: 1.35mm
Cable Core Pair: 2 twisted bonded insulated conductors
Cable Core Cross Web: Polyolefin
Number of Cable Pairs: 4, all twisted together
Cable Colours: Pair 1: White / Blue & Blue
Pair 2: White / Orange & Orange
Pair 3: White / Green & Green
Pair 4: White / Brown & Brown
Cable Foil: Overlapping Polyester foil over cable core
Foil & Braid Shielding Material: Laminated aluminium / polyester
Position aluminium: Facing outside in contact with drain wire
Drain wire material: Solid tinned copper
Drain wire diameter: AWG 26
Braid material: Solid tinned copper
Coverage: ≥ 40%
Jacket Material: LSNH
Diameter: 7.4 ± 0.3mm
International standard: ISO/IEC 11801 2nd edition (2002) and ISO/IEC 11801 Amendment 2 (2010)
European standard: EN 50173-1 (2002) and EN 50173-1 Amendment 1 (2009)
U.S. Standards: ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-B.2-1 (2002)
Reference standard: ISO/IEC 61156-5 edition 2.0 (2009)

Electrical Properties

Low frequency & D.C. at 20°C

DC resistance conductor: < 9.5 /100m
Resistance unbalance: within a pair / between pairs < 2 / < 4 %
Insulation resistance ≥ 5000 M.km
Dielectric strength conductor-conductor and conductor-screen (2 sec.) 2.5 kV DC
Mutual capacitance < 56 nF/km
Capacitance unbalance pair to ground < 1600 pF/km
Nominal velocity of propagation (for information only) > 0.6 c
Delay skew (differential delay) ≤ 40 ns/100m
Transfer impedance according IEC 61156-5 Grade 2
Coupling attenuation according IEC 61156-5 Type II

High frequency (at 20°), reference standard: ISO/IEC61156-5
TYPE 1* 4 10 16 20 31.2 62.5 100 155 200 250 MHz
Attenuation 2.1 3.8 6.0 7.6 8.5 10.7 15.5 19.9 25.3 29.1 33.0 dB/100m
NEXT 75.3 66.3 60.3 57.2 55.8 52.9 48.4 45.3 42.4 40.8 39.3 dB/100m
PS NEXT 72.3 63.3 57.3 54.2 52.8 49.9 45.4 42.3 39.4 37.8 36.3 dB/100m
ACR 73.2 62.4 54.3 49.6 47.3 42.1 32.9 25.4 17.1 11.6 6.3 dB/100m
PS ACR 70.2 59.4 51.3 46.6 44.3 39.1 29.9 22.4 14.1 8.6 3.3 dB/100m
ACR-F 70.0 58.0 50.0 45.9 44.0 40.1 34.1 30.0 26.2 24.0 22.0 dB/100m
PS ACR-F 67.0 55.0 47.0 42.9 41.0 37.1 31.1 27.0 23.2 21.0 19.0 dB/100m
Return Loss 20.0 23.0 25.0 25.0 25.0 23.6 21.5 20.1 18.8 18.0 17.3 dB/100m
TCL level 1 40.0 34.0 30.0 28.0 27.0 25.1 22.0 20.0 18.1 17.0 16.0 dB/100m
EL TCTL 35.0 23.0 15.0 10.9 9.0 5.1 dB/100m
Impedance upper limit 122.2 115.2 111.9 111.9 111.9 114.1 118.3 121.9 126.0 128.8 131.5
Impedance lower limit 81.8 86.8 89.4 89.4 89.4 87.7 84.5 82.0 79.3 77.6 76.0
Propagation delay 570 552 545 543 540 539 538 537 537 537 536 dB/100m

NOTE: Limits below 4MHz are for information only

Mechanical Properties

Elongation at break of the conductors: 72 VDC
Maximum continuous current per conductor (@25°C): 1.5A
Temperature rating installation: 0/50°C
Temperature rating operation: - 30 / 60°C
Total cable weight: 56 kg/km
Minimum bending radius (operation and installation) 30 / 60mm
Maximum pulling strength: 110N
Burning load: 745 kJ/m
Smoke density acc. to IEC 61034-1/2 & EN50268-1/2; transmittance: >60%
Amount of halogen acid gas acc. to IEC 60754-1/2 & EN50267-1/2; pH: > 4.3
Amount of halogen acid gas acc. to IEC 60754-1/2 & EN50267-1/2; Conductivity: < 10μS/mm
Fire performance according IEC 60332-1 Pass

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