For Gigabit Ethernet (1000BASE ... yet not many have the test equipment lying around to validate that a ‘Cat-6A’ cable isn’t secretly a barely-Cat-5-cable with CCA conductors.

[Blue Jeans Cable] asserts that this is possible because the Ethernet cable specification is policed via the honor system, allowing manufacturers to be fairly brazen about what they label as Cat 6.

Binder has introduced Cat6A data rated cables terminated in M12 circular connectors for ... Applications are foreseen in Ethernet-infrastructures and camera connections.