Hikvision DS-2DE5230W-AE Network Surveillance Camera, 4.3-129mm Lens, 1920 X 1080, Black/White

security cameras use two types of cables to transmit video it can be coax cable or a key network cable coax cable is often referred to as rg59 or RG six network cable is often referred to as cat 5 or cat 6 the important thing to understand is the type of cable you used to transmit video does not guarantee good performance or bad performance in fact if you take a coax system and a network system and put them side-by-side with the cameras having the same resolution you won't be able to tell the two systems apart so the first misconception that we want to discard is if you use a network system or a cat 6 system you're gonna have amazing clarity reality is you can have amazing clarity with a coax system or a network system and you can also have very poor performance with a network system or aquatic system so performance and resolution and quality is not a function of the cable it's a functi