Networks 24 core + cat5e or 6

Does anyone know where to get 24 core or more twisted pair in either cat5e or 6 flavours.

Ideally it needs to be direct burial.

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May be worth asking at your local electrical wholesalers, I would have thought they'll know more about this and where to get it from.

 

If you need 3 Gigabits of network bandwidth, then just get 3x8 core Cat6 cable. By your question I assume you need cheap network cable with a total of 24 wires - I got 20m of Cat6 UTP from scan for £8. Note that these are patch cables so may not be suited for long distance or direct burial, but I wired up two of these cables through the attic to a wall jack and both work fine.

 

I need like 6km of the stuff and its going to be external so needs to be direct burial, I could run just multiple cat6 but a multicore would be more efficient.

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http://www.betterbox.co.uk/acatalog/Product_List__BULK_CAT_5_Multi_Core_747.html

Give these a ring?

 

I've seen plenty of 6 pair direct burial cat5e cable in the telecom world, but any pair counts higher than that is always cat3.

Might I ask what your intended application is? It may be worth looking at fiber, if you plan on running ethernet.

 

6km? you running a network to your friends house? awesome if you are

 

It's for a very large piece of property. We already ran fiber with another fiber redundancy as well, but for some reason also want to fit a copper redundancy which is a mission, have to add extenders etc to increase distance over 90m.

I can run multiple cables but was just wondering if there was some multicore stuff since it would make the pulls a lot easier.

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I still don't understand why you would want to use cat5, especially if you need to put repeaters every 100m.
If you're trying to add capacity, either look into CWDM or upgrade to 10gbit optics and use your existing fiber.
If you insist on copper, google provided a few possible leads:

http://www.eland.co.uk/electricalca.../cat-5e-25-pair-utp-rbs-duct-grade-cable.html
http://www.elitecables.co.uk/cat5e_cables.htm

 

We already laid om4 so there is plenty of bandwidth with the fiber runs. But you only need a pair of extenders at either end of the long runs, they give you a 1km extension on copper. I'll check that link now, cheers buddt

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These guys are your friends.

Any cable you like, if they dont have it then they can source it. Have been using for over 8 years with no problems.