WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they couldn’t just keep building the cables the way they used to.

Although swapping a Cat-5e patch cable with a Cat-7 one between a ... hitting 100 MHz, Cat-6 250 MHz and Cat-6A 500 MHz. What this effectively means is the number of times that the signal can ...

but older versions like CAT 6, CAT 6A, and CAT 7 remain relevant since all of these cables are backward compatible. Today’s Ethernet cables are mostly CAT6 or higher. Earlier standards ...