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Explore practical guides, installation advice, product insights and industry updates from the DTECH team. Whether you're specifying products, planning a project or troubleshooting a network, you'll find straightforward technical content for installers, engineers and businesses.

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09/03/2026

The Complete Guide to Cat6 Data Cable: Speed, Distance, PoE and When to Upgrade

Cat6 is the current baseline standard for commercial and enterprise network cabling. Introduced in 2002 and formalised under TIA/EIA-568-C.2 and ISO/IEC 11801, it replaced Cat5e as the recommended horizontal cabling...
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04/05/2026

The Complete Guide to Cat6A Cable: Speed, Distance, PoE and When to Upgrade

Cat6A — Augmented Category 6 — is the current recommended standard for new commercial structured cabling installations. Specified to 500MHz bandwidth and certified for 10 Gigabit Ethernet at the full...
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18/05/2026

The Copper Price Surge Explained: AI, Electrification and What It Means for Your Installation Budget

If you have priced copper data cable in the last eighteen months and noticed it costs more than it used to, you are not imagining it. Copper prices have surged...
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16/02/2026

What is a Keystone Jack and How Does It Affect Network Performance?

A keystone jack is one of the smallest components in a structured cabling installation and one of the most consequential. It is the modular connector that terminates the permanent horizontal...
DTECH metal-shielded Quick-Lock STP keystone jack opened to show colour-coded terminals and a blue cable in its wire guide
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09/02/2026

What is a Patch Panel: Why They Matter and How to Choose

A patch panel is one of those components that is easy to overlook when planning a network — it does not switch, route, or process data, and to the uninitiated...
DTECH 48-Port High-Density Keystone Patch Panel showing two numbered rows of unloaded ports and rear cable clips
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01/06/2026

What is an RJ45 Connector: Everything You Need to Know

The RJ45 connector is the small plastic plug at the end of every Ethernet cable — the thing you click into a laptop, a network switch, a wall outlet, or...
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19/01/2026

What is Control Cable, How It Differs from Data Cable and When to Use Each

Control cable is one of those terms that gets used loosely across the AV, automation, and building services industries — sometimes to mean any low-voltage cable, sometimes to mean something...
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01/12/2025

What is LSZH Cable and When Do You Need It?

LSZH stands for Low Smoke Zero Halogen. It describes a cable jacket compound that behaves fundamentally differently from standard PVC when it burns — producing significantly less smoke and releasing...
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