What is Cat 5e cable?

Category 5e Cable (Cat 5e) is an enhanced version of Cat 5 with additional specification for far end crosstalk and to support speeds of up to 1000 megabits per second. This type of cable is often used in structured cabling for computer networks such as Ethernet, and is also used to carry many other signals such as basic voice services, token ring, and ATM (at up to 155 Mbit/s, over short distances). Testing requirement is up to 100Mhz and a maximum working distance is 100M. Cat 5e is commonly used for 100Mb/s network, 100BASE-TX Ethernet and it is suitable for Gigabit Ethernet, 100Base-T.