Category 6A - Needed Now More than Ever for AV Signal Transmission
With the increased demand for high-quality digital content, the AV world has adopted the use of IP or IP-like systems to transmit AV signals and provide power to display devices.
Technologies such as HDBaseT, SDVoE, Dante AV, AVB (Audio Video Bridging) and others have large bandwidth requirements that can only be handled with Category 6A cabling.
It is possible to use lower levels of category cabling to transmit AV signals by introducing compression to the digital signal to reduce bandwidth requirements. The drawback to compressing the AV signal, however, is the negative effect on image quality. As more compression is introduced, the likelihood of the received image having defects, artifacts or other distortions increases. To guarantee AV image quality, less (or zero) compression is applied, requiring more bandwidth.
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Ron joined Belden in 2016 to help define the roadmap of technology and applications in enterprise. Prior to this, he developed cables and connectivity for Panduit and Andrew Corp. Ron Tellas is a subject-matter expert in RF design and Electromagnetic Propagation. As a Technology and Applications Manager, Ron focuses on Local Area Networking. He represents Belden in the ISO WG3 committee, TIA TR42 Premises Cabling Standards, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group and served as a committee member of NFPA 70 Code-Making Panel 3. Ron is the inventor of 16 US patents. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration from Purdue University.