Exceptional performance and suitable for outdour use:Belden introduces CatSnake™ heavy duty cables

Belden has introduced a range of CatSnake™ UTP cables for digital audio/video formats or for use in Ethernet patches. These Category 5E cables deliver exceptional audio/video performance and they are extremely rugged and flexible – ideal for outdoor use, in broadcast truck applications, in studios and for portable, professional audio/video use.

Belden’s range of field deployable CatSnake™ Cat 5E UTP cables utilize Belden’s proprietary “Bonded Pair” design, which bonds the individual insulated conductors together along the full length of the cable. This provides the cable with a uniform conductor-to conductor spacing along its longitudinal axis. This ensures consistent impedance characteristics, where standard unbonded-pair cables tend to gap during flexing, coiling and handling. These gaps can create an impedance mismatch, leading to significant loss in quality.

According to Werner Eich, Marketing Manager Entertainment Europe for Belden, the consistency of a UTP cable can determine its transmission distance: “Physical characteristics such as the cable’s conductor-to-conductor spacing relationship along the full length of the cable can affect the distance over which a signal can be carried at a given frequency without excessive attenuation due to return loss.”

Belden CatSnake Bonded-Pair Cat 5E video/audio cables maintain their impedance and return-loss performance – even when flexed and handled in rugged, harsh, outdoor environments.

To further ensure excellent performance in a variety of environments, Belden provides heavy jacket wall versions of these cables for medium duty applications and an upjacketed version for the harshest heavy duty environments. To make them flexible, these cables have stranded (7x32)conductors and matte-finished jackets. These cables also pass the UL 1581 -40˚C cold bend test and are RJ 45 and Neutrik Ethercon compatible.

Werner Eich: “Belden is preparing for the future. As a pioneer and leader in cable technology, Belden has always taken a stringent approach to cable quality assurance. Rather than simply inspect and test cables after manufacturing, Belden begins its quality process in the product development and manufacturing stages. This "Design for Manufacturability" approach, combined with statistical quality control of manufacturing processes, and state-of-the-art manufacturing and testing equipment, ensure that Belden cables are manufactured in such a consistent manner as to guarantee superior performance and reliability.”