categoría 3

Category 3 cable, commonly called Cat 3, is a twisted pair cable designed to faithfully transport data up to 10 Mbit / s, with a possible bandwidth of 16 MHz. It is part of a family of defined copper cable standards together by the Electronic Industries Alliance and the Telecommunications Industry Association, more specifically by the EIA / TIA 568 standard. Category 3 was a popular wiring format among network administrators in the early 1990s, but fell in popularity against the similar But superior standard of Category 5 Cable. Currently, most wiring is made in Category 5 or Category 6, but the use is maintained in 2-line telephone systems, even though Cat 5 or 6 would facilitate the migration to VOIP