I have come across several times, though, a cable that only has 2 twisted pair of cables with only 4 of the pins being used and the remaining pins of the RJ45 connector left open.

Twisted-pair cables can have many different types of connectors. The two most common are Registered Jack (RJ) 11 and RJ45. RJ11 connectors are commonly used in U.S. telephones with four or six ...

Twisted-pair Ethernet, one of the most commonly used types of network cabling, has played a crucial role in shaping modern communication. From the earliest days of networking to its current status as ...

We all take Ethernet and its ubiquitous RJ-45 connector for granted these days. But Ethernet didn’t start with twisted pair cable. [Mark] and [Ben] at The Serial Port YouTube channel are taki… ...

Swiss cabling specialist Reichle & De-Massari has launched the world’s thinnest Shielded Twisted Pair (STP) copper trunk cable. The new ThinCompact Cat.6A cable shaves almost 70 percent off the bulk ...

MSolutions has upgraded its MS-TestPro HDBaseT tester with a profile for verifying the integrity of Extron’s XTP DTP 24 Shielded Twisted Pair Cables. The handheld test device provides data to analyze ...