CAT6A Direct Burial Cable 1000ft - Shielded, 23AWG Solid Copper 10G

This is the standard Cat6A for 10G runs underground. A polyethylene jacket is the right material for burial because it doesn't absorb water the way PVC does, and this one is UV-resistant too, so the same cable can come up out of the trench and run along a wall to an access point. Inside, an aluminum-mylar foil with a tinned copper drain wire blocks interference from power sharing the trench and keeps alien crosstalk between bundled cables out of the 10G budget. It's rated CMX for outdoor use and direct burial across a -40 °C to 60 °C range, and for ordinary ground that drains, it's the 10G burial cable most jobs need.

Cat6A is the category that carries 10GBase-T over a full 100 m channel. Underneath are 23 AWG solid bare copper conductors with HDPE insulation, full gauge for the lowest loss, with a cross-shaped spline holding the four pairs apart along the whole run. It comes on a 1000 ft wooden spool with a rip cord and footage markings on the jacket.

Features

• 10GBase-T over a full 100 m channel. It also runs 5G, 2.5G, and 1G links, and works with Cat6 and Cat5e equipment.
• F/UTP overall foil shield with tinned copper drain wire. It blocks EMI and RFI from buried power lines and nearby equipment, holds alien crosstalk down in dense bundles, and the tinned drain resists corrosion in damp conditions.
• UV-resistant LDPE jacket, CMX rated. Polyethylene resists moisture, soil chemicals, and sunlight, and is rated for direct burial, conduit, and exposed outdoor runs.
• 23 AWG solid bare copper. Full-gauge solid conductors for the lowest loss over a full channel and the least voltage drop on PoE runs. No copper-clad aluminum.
• HDPE insulation with a pair separator. Moisture-resistant, with tight pair twists and a cross-shaped spline that keeps the pairs at a fixed spacing for crosstalk control at 10G.
• -40 °C to 60 °C operating range. It works through frozen ground and summer heat.
• Rip cord. Strip the jacket without nicking the foil or the conductors.
• Sequential footage markings. Measure trench runs and track what's left on the spool.
• 1000 ft wooden spool. Standard TIA-568 pair colors inside.

Where It Fits

It suits 10G links between buildings on a campus, farm, or industrial site, underground runs between data halls, buried feeds to multi-gig access points and wireless bridges, camera and gate runs near power, and any trench or conduit that passes near electrical infrastructure.

Good to Know

Outdoor cable brings lightning and surge risk into the building with it. Put a gas-discharge Ethernet surge protector at each entry point, bonded to the building ground, and ground the shield's drain wire at one end. CMX cable is limited to 50 feet inside a building by the NEC, so transition to CM, CMR, or CMP cable at the entry. Bury it at least 18 to 24 inches deep, or per local code, and consider conduit anyway where the ground gets dug up. This cable relies on its jacket to keep water out; for damp ground, a high water table, or a run you can't easily dig up again, the water-blocked version of this cable adds an internal water-blocking jacket for a second line of defense. A shield only works when it's grounded, so terminate on shielded Cat6A jacks. Solid conductors are for permanent runs; terminate on jacks and patch panels, not crimped plugs.

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