Sewell SolidRun High Copper Content CCA Cable

Get gigabit transfer speeds and beyond with the Sewell bulk Cat6 cable. Our High Copper Content CCA meets Cat6 speeds and specs without the high price of pure copper.

Gigabit Network:

This Cat6 CCA cable is perfect for creating up to a 10 gigabit network in your home or office (10GBASE-T), and will also support gigabit networks (1000BASE-T), Fast Ethernet (100BASE-Tx), and 10BASE-T.

Cat5e vs. Cat6:

Although Cat5e also supports a gigabit network, Cat6 features more stringent specifications to fight crosstalk and system noise. Crosstalk is the interference that happens inside the cable between the four twisted pairs of conductors that are wrapped around each other. System noise is the interference (usually EMI, or, electromagnetic interference) from the environment. this can come from power lines, office flourescent lights, microwaves, etc. Cat6 features a more robust gauge that protects you from such problems.

What is CCA Cable?

Our CCA cables meet Cat6 speeds and specs without the high price of Pure Copper

While Pure/Bare Copper cables are the is widely accepted standard when installing communication cables, CCA allows cables to utilize all of the benefits that copper has to offer, while maintaining a much more affordable price tag and helping to protect the world’s limited supply of copper. CCA is made by bonding a layer of pure copper onto an aluminum core. While drawn our CCA obviously contains less copper than pure copper cable, it delivers virtually the same conductivity with only slightly higher resistance. How is this possible? It has to do with an electrical phenomenon known as 'skin effect'.

Because of skin effect, you can use a less expensive metal for the core and use copper on the outer layer to achieve the virtually the same conductivity. Good quality CCA is all about finding a balance. Too much copper is a waste of materials, yet too little copper decreases the cable's efficiency and quality. Unfortunately, many cable manufacturers try and cut corners by using as little copper as possible. Most CCA cable uses only 10 to 15% copper by weight. That means that only about 60-65% of the current is going through copper in these cables. Our CCA cat6 and cat5e cables use about 24% copper by weight (about twice the amount of copper), giving you guaranteed performance without having to pay outrageous prices.