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CAT 5 REPLACMENT CABLING FOR BELDON 9504

1            INTRODUCTION
              Historically the Standard Cable for interconnection of EDP equipment has been the Beldon 9504
              standard.

2            REPLACEMENT CABLE
               There is a CAT 5 cable, Category 5 Enhanced FTP 4 Pair Patch Cable; which does have a
               similar specification to the Beldon 9504 cable.

3            This Category 5 Enhanced FTP 4 Pair Patch Cable can be used instead of the Beldon 9504.

4            COLOURS
              The major difference is the colour coding, and the following table should be used as a conversion.
              EDP will not be reissuing the complete Cable Specifications with the revised colours.

                      Existing Beldon colours             New CAT 5 colours

                      Red                                               Orange

                      Black paired with Red                 White / Orange

                      Blue                                               Blue

                      Black paired with Blue                 White / Blue

                      Green                                            Green

                      Black paired with Green              White / Green

                      White                                             Brown

                      Black paired with White              White / Brown

5            CATEGORY 5 ENHANCED FTP 4 PAIR PATCH CABLE SPECIFICATION
              Overall size                                          5.7mm
              Conductors                                          7/ 0.18mm
              Characteristic Impedance                 100W
              Resistance                                          110W /km
              Capacitance per m                             56pF
              Attenuation per 100m @ 1MHz         3.2dB

6            Only CAT 5 cable of a similar specification may be used.

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