1000ft Cat6 Plenum Grey CMP Rated | Fluke Tested | 550 Mhz 23 AWG Bulk Network Cable - Cm Cables

hi this is Jim Gibson with cable supply.com and today I want to talk a little bit about cable ratings we're not necessarily talking about categories 5e or 6 or 7 a or things like that what we're talking about is we're talking about the what type of cable to use in what type of situation and you have two cables basically two cable types to decide on and one is cmr which stands for riser cable and then the other one is CMP and P stands for plenum rated cable so they're your two types of cables now plenum rated cable is always going to be twice as expensive as riser cable it's the same exact copper inside the same let electrical characteristics in both cables the differences is the covering on the cable it's it's the the sheath over the cable and it basically deals with fire code so when do you use CMR and when to use CMP let's take a look and I'll show you now remember we're not talking a