 So when you're building out your network LED lights may be optional, but patch cables are not and ideally you want your patch cables to Be nice neat clean because cable management matters or at least does to me and hopefully to you as well I've we've all seen our share of nightmares of unmanaged patch patch cables that are just kind of scattered everywhere and I wanted to do some samples here of different cables that I ordered all these I ordered from while these thin ones are from Monoprice. I just don't recall because we've had these so long Where I got these from at the moment. They might be Monoprice cables. Well, I actually think they are we bought these in bulk a while back But these really thin ones are kind of interesting. So let me switch to the overhead here So you can get you a better idea what these cables look like. So these are the familiar cat patch cables That's you generally see granted. These are pretty short but you know common standard size that's pretty popular right now and this is The newer TIA 568.2-d recognized 28 gauge patch cable So they went down a little bit in cable size and well, there's definitely a savings there now They're being recognized and being an ANSI standard for these TIA ANSI standard means these are recognized to be used for cat 6 for full Transfer speeds and for PoE And the downside is when you go over with PoE as you go to smaller cables You have resistance which can build up some heat and cause loss and power delivery Now I'll link to a research done by the IEEE Labs I believe they have a whole step-by-step process and testing and some cool photos to go with it of how they did the testing and Certified that you can run PoE over 28 gauge and you know how that works And it works fine obviously with individual cables But once you start bundling them they talk about the heat issues that can come and any of the power losses that might come with it So while you can make the cables thinner the laws of physics Well, they still apply so you can only get so much so many watts over thinner pieces of copper There's always going to be some conductivity issues like some of the things I tested this with which was cameras and things like that They're low wattage anyway, so the losses are so minimal and not really a big deal And if you're only using them for the patch side of it not a big deal at all because well Most of it's gonna be wrong with your standard, you know riser or plenum cables To get to the device and we're just talking about the patching part here at the very end But then mono price goes a step further and I didn't find anything in reference to certifications of these cables But these are the new mono price slim lines and wow when they say slim this goes all the way down to 32 gauge So this is a much thinner cable and it's even thinner of course Than the 28 gauge here and I have tested this with both POE and 10 gig. These are cat six I mean tiny little 32 gauge cat six cables now granted you go even more resistance when you cut down to 32 gauge But I did a little bit of reading a mono price claims that they can wind these tighter They're able to maintain the data rates, which like I said, I didn't Do anything more than just test with my computer that would link at 10 gig and send 10 gig file over it And it did so that didn't seem to affect it I didn't try to any maximum distances, but I'm pretty impressed especially for a shorter patch cable These are you know really interesting. So let's take a little bit closer look at them So when you lay these cables all side-by-side there is a Substantially smaller amount of cable in here and that adds up as you're adding a lot of cables and doing a lot of patching There is just You know it turns into a rat's nest pretty quick of just messy cables But when you have thinner cables to start with well, it makes cable management that much easier whether you're running them through the finger trays or Through some type of other horizontal or vertical cable management when you have a lot of patching to do These just make it a lot easier to get a bunch of cables together Especially when let's look at a handful of them together So here's four cables and four cables all pushed together once you push them together kind of tight like this It's barely thicker than a single one of these so as you get into doing a much larger install You can see that this is going to make a really big difference in terms of the amount of cabling that you have on there so this is You know impressive that they're able to perform this way and that it still works at higher speeds And but I wanted to go a step further and not just you know say hey, these are cool I cut the end off one and I well I have a macro lens here So we're going to dig under the macro here and show you just how thin these wires are because they're just about like hairs When you're looking at them, so it's really impressive. So as I'm staring them under the macro So you can kind of get the idea that these are really thin under the macro. This is this almost like hair tiny hairs seeing them and There's for size difference reference here. This is a standard cat 5 cable This absolutely the copper inside a cat 5 cable is thicker than the jacketed one inside of here So these are like amazingly tiny and in terms like that. It's just Absolutely impressive just how small these cables are but are still able to work So I'm you know sacrificing cable is worth it because I you know I want to see just how thin these are but I also want to talk about the other ones that I've started keeping in my bag with me so I Traditionally use some of the thin flat cables because they're easier to bundle up when I have you know going out somewhere I need to fix a switch need to fix a router need to plug my laptop into it In having a bag with a big bundled thick cable not always all that convenient But having these these come in all the way up to 50 feet and they have the little push clip on them and the little spring on them So they're a little bit more durable. This is only only slightly thicker than their thin line It's still part of the thin line, but it's like a heavier duty one And this is something I keep in my network and like I said These are really well made and I like the advantage of having the little push on there And if you aren't familiar with why you would care if those are on there You've never clearly had one of those computers that the network card is slightly recessed and it's hard to get to the stupid Push clip on there and you end up pulling your pocket knife out But with this I can just push that down and Clip it back out. So these are kind of my new go-to for my bag I've got a few more in order some longer ones because they just bundle up really really nice So being able to just quickly do this and have a nice tight little Set up for the network cable Definitely great. So for patch management. I Really I haven't done but a few small jobs with a none of them po weeks I'm not comfortable enough yet unless someone you know can really tell me I guess I know the resistance ratings on 32 gauge wire it should be fine for PoE I've certainly tested here and left things on here at the office including other like unified Wireless and unified cameras including turning on the night vision on them So they're using a you know, I think they use like 15 watts max and these don't even seem I don't have a flare camera But to the touch I can't feel any noticeable heat in them But obviously it still worries me a little bit because that just feels wrong to have wires that then and PoE And I know that these have been lab tested and I'll leave a link to that where you have the standard 28 gauge Now we've used plenty of these now all these come in a variety of colors I have links below For where you can purchase these on Amazons or affiliate links if you want to help all the channel That's appreciated if you don't well you can go buy them wherever you want then or don't click my affiliate links But I do appreciate any of you don't want to help me out But yeah, these are pretty cool for non PoE applications I'm gonna say these might be my go-to for my next big job That we do and I'd love to you know share some photos or whatever if you want in the forums if you've used these before I'm kind of curious of any big installs. I have some photos I think I may be able to have a couple photos of installs We've done with these which are great And I like that they all come in a big variety of colors and someone had asked me about this before about color management and We have all these different colors because like this red one right here happens to be what feeds it So when you're building things out, it's nice to use color coding It can be convenient that way if you're not there and someone unplugs it and you match everything up You're like, no, no There was a red wire in here because we have the trunk one set to here and the VLAN one set to these colors Oh, or if you're you know mixing matching devices and it just looks cool when you build a rack And it's kind of like all these colored ones are here and all those colored ones are there and match everything But anyways, like I said links below where you can get these so far. I'm impressed with them the speed and everything seems good I'm just amazing to me that I got this it feels weird that technology It's just thinner cable almost but it's it still feels very like modern and new I can't wait to maybe do one large job of a bunch of these cables Maybe I'll do a book order of these So I think we're finally running out of all these that we usually stock in the back So I double-checked I didn't find any photos I had of these cables installed But these are the 28 gauge not the ultra slim but 28 gauge cables And you can see what a difference they make on an install of how nice neat and clean this looks So here's a couple different pictures. Like I said, this is public on is their Sprinter business solutions Facebook Sprinter business Facebook slash printer business my friend Chris's company But yeah, it makes for a really nice look also when you look at the cable management from this standpoint If you were using standardized cables, this would be you know This is where those bundles start getting thicker and thicker when you're trying to mess them Look how thick the cables are coming to it, but look how thin they are on this side for the patch cable So I'm really a fan of these. 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