INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cabling
The Use of Copper Clad
Aluminium Conductors in
Structured Cabling
Taken from a recent white paper, Brand Rex discusses today’s structured
cabling, wherein competitive markets encourage some end users to search
out the cheapest category cables for their structured cabling requirements.
One way some cable manufacturers could use to reduce the cost of such
products is to not use solid copper conductors, but copper clad aluminium
(CCA) conductors in their place.
A
s the name implies, CCA
conductors replace a large
proportion of the copper in the
centre of the conductor with aluminium
making a lighter and cheaper product.
This change is not always instantly
noticeable to the installer or end
user. Whilst in some n