page 1/5 Application: High Density Switch & Hub Working area cord and telecommunications equipment cord in Local Area Networking environments Support current and future Category 6 applications, such as: 1000Base-T (Gigabit Ethernet), 100 Base-T, 10 Base-T, FDDI, ATM General standards: ISO/IEC 11801 2nd edition, 2002 EN 50173-1, 2002 ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-B.2-1, 2001 IEC 60603-7-1, 2009 FCC 47, Part 68, Subpart F IEC 603-7, 1990 (for plug) Construction Figure 1 Belden CAT 6 modular cord assembly 1. Patch cord structure (In figure 1) Cable Jacket: LSOH (Low Smoke Zero Halogen) Plug Housing: Polycarbonate (PC), UL 94V-2 rated Contact Blade: Phosphor bronze plated with 1.27um gold over 2.54um nickel undercoat Shield: Copper (0.25mm) plated with 0.67um Nickel Assembly: 568B on both sides Boot: PVC (Drawing referred to PX103800-811)
2. Patch cable structure (Shown in Figure 2) TECHNICAL DATA SHEET code NN01297 page 2/5 1 2 3 4 5 Figure 2 CAT 6 Stranded S/FTP patch cable 1) Conductor Stranded bare copper ETP Diameter 7x0.16 (AWG 26) 2) Insulation Nominal diameter over insulation 3) Cable core Pair Pair shielding Number of pairs Colour code pair 1 Colour code pair 2 Colour code pair 3 Colour code pair 4 Foam Polyethylene 1.03 mm 2 twisted insulated conductors Laminated aluminium-polyester Aluminium facing outside 4, all twisted together White / Blue White / Orange White / Green White / Brown 4) Braid shielding Tinned copper (16/5/0.10mm) Coverage 55% 5) Jacket LSOH Diameter 6.2± 0.2 mm Color Refer to PS-08008 Standard text: BELDEN (15759) STRANDED SHIELDED S/FTP CAT 6 LSOH MODULAR CORD 4PR/26 AWG
page 3/5 Technical information 1. Electrical characteristics The patch cords are tested on the coils for NEXT and return loss. (>180mm diameter) The equipment is: Fluke DTX1800 (Fluke Networks part number DTX-1800) Firmware revision 2.22 and up with Patch cords test head adapter (Fluke Networks part number DTX-PCU6S) And the test setup is shown in Figure 3. Patch cords under test (coiled in 180mm diameter) Fluke DTX Main Fluke DTX remote Figure 3. NEXT & Return loss Test setup for the patch cords NEXT requirement: 1dB margin compared to TIA/EIA-568-B.2 Limit (See Annex 1) Return loss requirement: 1dB margin compared to TIA/EIA-568-B.2 Limit (See Annex 1) Current Rating: 1.5 A Insulation Resistance: 500 MΩ min. Contact Resistance: 20 mω max. Dielectric Strength: 1000 VAC (rms) Voltage: 72 VDC max.
page 4/5 2. Mechanical characteristics Insertion Life: 750 mating cycles Temperature rating installation: 0/50 Temperature rating operation and storage: -20/60 Part number structure The physical and electrical characteristics of the Belden CAT 6 shielded modular cords are defined regarding color and length: Part Number: NN01297.AACLL AA = Color (refer to PS-08008, the color specifications) 01=Brown, 02=Red, 03=Orange, 04=Yellow, 05=Green, 06=Blue, 07=Purple, 08=Grey, 09=White, 10=Black C = Coil in Bag LL = Cord Length in meter D5 = 0.5 m, 1= 1 m, 2= 2 m, 3= 3 m, 5= 5 m, 10= 10 m, 15= 15 m Packaging Each patch cord is packed in a plastic bag with identification label. Each carton to be filled in line with the defined packaging quantity for the different lengths. Change history: Length in Metres Quantity per carton 0.5 200 1 150 2 100 3 70 5 50 10 25 15 20 2009-12-16: First issue of this specification. Version 1 2010-01-21: Second issue with the following changes Version 2 7 Color codes changed in the part number structure to match Belden Richmond code Cable specifications corrected to reflect approved product. 2010-02-26: Third issue with the following changes Version 2.1 All 10 Color codes changed in the part number structure to match Belden Richmond code 2010-03-03: Fourth issue with the following changes Version 2.2 Standard Text updated with Vendor code.
page 5/5 Annex 1 Required Electrical performance for the CAT 6 S/FTP stranded patch cord Belden declares this product to be in compliance with the environmental regulations EU RoHS (Directive 2002/95/EC, 27 January 2003); this is valid for all material produced after the RoHS compliant date for this product.