Deca10 Cat6A Keystone termination tool

The Deca10 Cat6A Keystone tool is required to terminate the cable within the Deca10 keystone. The tool is simple to use and ensures a good connection, trimming the cores and terminating the Cat6A cable within the Deca10 Keystone jackin 1 single action.

HDMI video and cable bandwidth

Distribution of HDMI video over Category 5e and 6 cables has been around for some time, but as the quality increases so do the demands on the cables joining the HDMI extender baluns and matrix switchers. 1080p FullHD video requires a massive bandwidth from your cable, add to that multi-channel HD audio, 'Deep Colour' and then 3D and you can see why HDMI distribution over Cat5e or Cat6 is often not successful.

If you are just distributing SkyHD or even Sky 3D broadcast resolution ie 720p/60 or 1080i/60, you probably require 1.98 to 2.23 Gbps (Gigabits per second). Since a regular network installer will test and guarantee your Cat6 cable to 1Gbps, it is not always clear that you will be able to connect up your matrix and baluns and achieve the TV experience that you expect. Blu-ray Disc 1080p/24 3D sequence transmission requires 3.56 Gbps.

This is still less than regular 1080p/60 non 3D video at 4.46Gbps (assuming the standard 8-bit Deep Colour) but clearly the demands on the cable bandwidth are becoming greater. HDMI 1.3 supports 10-bit, 12-bit and 16-bit colour depths. HDMI 1.4a 'High speed with ethernet' cables have a bandwidth of 10.2Gbps and are capable of handling 1080p/60Hz resolution (which requires 8.92Gbps). Whilst no 3D equipment is yet offering 1080p/60 (likely to be a gaming format) or offering 4K x 2K resolution, planning for the future by using a higher speed network cable system is likely to be a good investment.

Deca10

The HellermanTyton Deca10 system offers Category 6A products to support a 10G (10Gbps) installation, making it ideally suited to residential 3D and high resolution video distribution solutions, data centres, server farms, Storage Area Networks (SAN), High Performance Cluster (HPC) Networks and Work Station Environments (WSE).

The Deca10 system consists of:

Deca10 Keystone patch panel
• Deca10 Keystone jack
• Deca10 keystone termination tool
• Deca10 Keystone wall mounting outlet module for mounting into a standard HNS wall faceplate
• Deca10 patch leads
• HellermannTyton Deca10 Category 6A cable

Features and Benefits of the Deca10 Cat6A Keystone termination tool

• Termination tool terminates all 8 cores in one single action
• Termination tool is manufactured with soft ergonomic grip and is simple to use
• Simple Terminations With Keystone Tool
• Uncompromised Support For 10G
• Crop And Crimp Handtool

For the specification sheet, click here. (PDF 641K)