Monoprice 144487 Cat6 CMP Plenum Bulk Cable 1000ft Purple 23AWG 550MHz

1000-foot Cat6 plenum reel

This 1000-foot bulk reel of Category 6 UTP cable is designed for installers who need to terminate custom-length runs in commercial buildings. The CMP plenum rating satisfies fire-code requirements for air-handling spaces. Solid 23AWG pure bare copper conductors meet UL Code 444 and TIA 568 C.2 standards. It suits structured wiring projects for LAN, server, CCTV and cloud-computing infrastructure.

550MHz bandwidth and solid copper

Rated to 550MHz, the cable provides headroom for Gigabit Ethernet and 10GBASE-T up to the standard channel limits. The solid 23AWG bare copper construction keeps insertion loss low over long horizontal runs. Because the conductors are solid rather than stranded, the cable is not suited for patch cords or repeated flexing at the work area. Installers needing flexible jumpers should use stranded patch cable instead.

Replaces CCA or non-plenum bulk cable

This reel replaces copper-clad aluminium bulk cable that fails fire-code inspection in plenum spaces. It also upgrades non-plenum riser cable when the pathway moves through return-air ceilings or raised floors. The jump is worth it whenever the building inspector requires a CMP rating or the specification demands pure bare copper to meet UL 444 and TIA 568 C.2. For residential patch-cable making, stranded UTP is the appropriate choice.