Placas de Pared Cat 6 Ethernet

Secure Ethernet Connections Protected by Wall Plates

Ethernet is a popular standard for wired connections in a home or an office. To protect them, and for aesthetic purposes, it is nice to use wall plates. Wall plates have openings for the connectors, and they also create a nice finished look to keep everything looking neat and organized.

Wall plates serve several functions, which include:

• Aesthetics: Wall plates are built to be an attractive addition to the wall surface. Some can be found in colors that are complimentary and blend in to the color of your wall paint. Others have a distinctive color that adds a desirable accent to the room.
• Protection: All connectors are subject to the incursion of dust and debris. The more debris, the more possibility of a connection failure. Wall plates help make a more secure repository for cable connections.
• Moisture: Room humidity is always an issue with wire connections. Wall plates are helpful with this issue.
• Added shielding: There are some environments where magnetic forces are an issue. For these environments, it is advisable to use especially-shielded wall plates for added efficiency.

Under normal home environments, there is no need to ground your Ethernet cable. There are transformers at both ends of the connection that are already grounded. However, there are some environments where grounding is necessary at connection points. In business and military environments, voltage levels that exceed 1500V need the extra grounding. In that case, metal wall plates may act as a grounding element.

Your choice of Ethernet cable connection is determined by the environment in which you are working.

Here are some options:

• Category 6 cable: Commonly known as Cat 6 cable, this is a cable with a specialized twisted-wire line built to carry information from one place to another. The length is limited to 324 feet Beyond this length, information begins to denigrate. The standard Cat 6 Ethernet cable is unshielded. Cat 6 is a step above the earlier UTP cable.
• Category 6a: Commonly referred to as Cat 6 "a," this is a shielded version of the Cat 6 Ethernet cable. Cat 6 "a" consists of the UTP upgrade to Cat 6 with a barrier built over the twisted wire that blocks magnetic fields. Cat 6 "a" is the cable to use in a heavy-industrial setting, where various magnetic fields may naturally occur. Any Cat6 is not a security cable. The Cat 6 "a" merely protects electrons traveling the Cat 6 "a" cable from magnetic interruption.

After several attempts to diversify, the industry standard settled on the RJ45 as the product to connect Ethernet connections. The RJ45 is a twisted-pair 8-position. 8-contact plug in a modular form. The module comes in both the unshielded and shielded forms. It may be used to connect any former or current forms of Ethernet cable to data using machines such as computers, monitors, and printers. RJ45s are susceptible to dust and debris collection. To protect the RJ45, wall plates are an essential part of the Cat 6 cable overall system.