A certified CAT6A run with a thin, unbranded patch cord at the switch is a CAT6 channel at best. The standard allows 10 m of patch cord in the 100 m channel, and it allows the cord to be stranded and thinner than the fixed cable — but only up to a point.
What is inside
WIAN CAT6A patch cords use 24 AWG stranded pure copper, four pairs, with Wi-Barrier Tape around the pairs — the same alien cross-talk barrier as the Gold Series cable — in a slim LSZH jacket with moulded boots. They are CAT6A U/UTP, so they match a Neo or Gold channel without shielded hardware.
Why 24 AWG
Thinner cords (26 or 28 AWG) exist in the market and they are convenient in a dense rack. The trade-off is insertion loss: the standard de-rates the channel for thin cords, so a 90 m run with 28 AWG cords at both ends is no longer a 100 m channel. 24 AWG keeps the full channel length and carries PoE+ without warming up in a bundle. We make one gauge and it works everywhere.
Why slim
A slim 24 AWG jacket bends tighter than a fixed cable, dresses neatly in a 48-port panel and does not block airflow in a switch. Slim is about the jacket, not the copper.
Lengths and colours
Eleven lengths from 0.3 m to 30 m. In a rack, 0.3 m and 0.5 m between panel and switch; 1 m and 2 m at the desk; 3 m and 5 m to cameras on a pole box; longer lengths where a run cannot be fixed-cabled. Use jacket colour to code by use — one colour for cameras, one for access points, one for uplinks — which costs nothing and saves hours; ask us which colours are in stock.
The rule for a clean channel
Fixed cable and cords of the same category, cords no longer than needed, and both ends labelled. Then the test report at hand-over is the same one the cable passed at the plant.