Why buy cat6 cables?

[ShadySocks]

I am no network guy, but I was wondering why there are no cheap 10 gigabit switches for cat6 cables, which are cheap.

[Antony Leung]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_6_cable

[SpencerBoughtAnXbox]

Thats a lot of data to push through. My router only gets up to 3.4 maximum and honestly you shouldn't need that kind of thing unless your like running a company server or something.

[tt2468]

2 minutes ago, Antony Leung said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_6_cable

Read his damn post

 

 

11 minutes ago, ShadySocks said:

I am no network guy, but I was wondering why there are no cheap 10 gigabit switches for cat6 cables, which are cheap.

It's partially because the standard is not very easy to implement hardware wise, and that the market is small compared to SFP+. Most datacenters use SFP+ instead of cat6a because cat6a has distance limitations, and companies like mellanox only make sfp+ equipment.

[Mira Yurizaki]

16 minutes ago, ShadySocks said:

I am no network guy, but I was wondering why there are no cheap 10 gigabit switches for cat6 cables, which are cheap.

It's mostly only in demand for businesses, which companies will happily charge and arm and a leg extra. Plus most use cases in a home network does not need 10Gbps. A 1Gbps stream can still handle a dozen 4K H.264 streams of great quality (going off a sample I have that's 60Mbps on average).

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

10G wont get cheaper until something faster is required at the enterprise level. 10G is where gigabit was 10 years ago

[tt2468]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

10G wont get cheaper until something faster is required at the enterprise level. 10G is where gigabit was 10 years ago

More like 15 years ago

[lx_srs]

27 minutes ago, ShadySocks said:

I am no network guy, but I was wondering why there are no cheap 10 gigabit switches for cat6 cables, which are cheap.

10Gbps is relatively new and mostly aimed at enterprise.  The cables are only cheap because they're really not much harder to make than Cat5e.

[Mornincupofhate]

2 hours ago, ShadySocks said:

I am no network guy, but I was wondering why there are no cheap 10 gigabit switches for cat6 cables, which are cheap.

Every 10 gigabit ethernet adapter I've seen costs as much as an SFP+ adapter. At that point, just go with fiber.

[dalekphalm]

22 hours ago, ShadySocks said:

I am no network guy, but I was wondering why there are no cheap 10 gigabit switches for cat6 cables, which are cheap.

Well, the biggest reason is because 10GigE is still considered an "Enterprise" technology, and thus there are very few consumer grade 10GigE switches (and possibly no 10GigE consumer grade Routers or Modems).

 

That'll change, slowly.

 

Cat6 cables are also only rated at 10GigE for 55m. You need Cat6a to get the full 100m length for 10GigE.

 

Cat6 can however, do 1GigE for the full 100m.

[oloap88]

On 02/03/2017 at 9:26 AM, SCHISCHKA said:

10G wont get cheaper until something faster is required at the enterprise level. 10G is where gigabit was 10 years ago

that's been out for some time now, 40Gbps uplinks are a common sight in a datacenter, the bleeding edge is now set at 100Gbps.

The reason why is so hard to have cheap 10gbps switches is that the ASIC modules are harder to make and implement.

Also port buffers and such needs to be bigger, you know in case it gets saturated!;)