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WP-580T/WP-580R - Overview
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3.1 About HDBaseT™ Technology
HDBaseT™ is an advanced and inexpensive all-in-one connectivity technology
(Supported by the HDBaseT Alliance). It is particularly suitable in the consumer
home environment as a digital home networking alternative where it enables you
to replace numerous cables and connectors by a single LAN cable used to
transmit, for example, uncompressed full high-definition video, audio, IR, as well
as various control signals.
The products described in this user manual are HDBaseT certified.
3.2
Using Twisted Pair Cable
Kramer engineers have developed special twisted pair cables to best match our
digital twisted pair products; the Kramer:
BC-DGKat524
(CAT 5 24 AWG), the
Kramer:
BC-DGKat623
(CAT 6 23 AWG cable), and the Kramer:
BC-DGKat7a23
(CAT 7a 23 AWG cable). These specially built cables significantly outperform
regular CAT 5 / CAT 6 / CAT 7a cables.
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