SCP CAT7A-STR-LSZH-WT — Cat7a S/FTP stranded LSZH installation cable
The SCP CAT7A-STR-LSZH-WT is a professional-grade Cat7a S/FTP stranded bulk installation cable designed for demanding structured cabling projects where 10-Gigabit Ethernet performance, flexibility and fire safety are all required. Supplied on a 300 m / 984 ft spool with a white low-smoke zero-halogen jacket, it suits both indoor pathways and UV-exposed outdoor runs. Typical applications include IP networks, HDBaseT AV distribution, PoE-powered devices, security and building automation in residential, commercial and public installations where CPR and international performance standards must be met. The stranded conductor construction makes it especially well suited for patching and short-run flexible drops rather than long horizontal runs on solid cable.
10G Ethernet on Cat7a S/FTP Construction
Fully shielded S/FTP construction with individually screened pairs and an overall braid delivers the alien-crosstalk headroom needed for reliable 10GBASE-T at the full 100 m channel length, and comfortably supports HDBaseT AV extenders and future higher-bandwidth applications. Rated to 1200 MHz — well above the 500 MHz demanded by Class Fa — so installers gain a real safety margin against noisy environments such as elevator shafts, industrial floors or dense cable trays running alongside power. In practice this means fewer retransmissions, cleaner AV signals and a cable that will outlive the active equipment plugged into it.
Stranded Conductors for Flexible Runs
Unlike solid-conductor bulk cable, the 26 AWG stranded copper cores stay flexible under tight bend radii and repeated handling. That makes the cable a better fit for equipment-side patching, robotic or moving installations, rack jumpers, and drops into furniture or lecterns where the cable is flexed during service. Termination is done onto field plugs or stranded-rated keystones rather than IDC punchdowns. End users get quieter, tidier installations in cabinets and behind displays, with less risk of hairline conductor fractures over time compared with solid cable that has been over-bent during install.
LSZH Jacket with CPR Dca Rating
The low-smoke zero-halogen jacket is CPR EN50575:2014 classified Dca, meaning limited flame spread and — critically — very little toxic smoke or corrosive halogen gas if a fire reaches the cable. This makes it legal and appropriate for public-access buildings across the EU: schools, hospitals, hotels, offices and transport hubs where PVC-jacketed cable is increasingly restricted. For the people occupying the building it means safer evacuation routes, and for the installer it means one SKU that passes local fire-code inspections across most European jurisdictions without having to re-specify per project.
UV-Resistant Indoor/Outdoor Jacket
The jacket compound is UV sun-resistant, so the cable can leave the building envelope for short exterior runs — under eaves, across courtyards, between outbuildings or along cable trays exposed to daylight — without degrading and cracking within a few seasons the way standard indoor jackets do. That removes the need to switch to a separate outdoor SKU (and the extra joints and terminations that come with it) for mixed-path installs. End users get a longer service life on the exterior sections of their network without the ongoing maintenance costs of replacing sun-brittled cable.
Standards Compliance and Traceability
The cable meets ANSI/TIA 568.2-D Category 7A and ISO/IEC 11801 Class Fa, and ships with a downloadable Declaration of Performance for the CPR Dca EuroClass. SCP publishes both the datasheet and the DoP openly on their website by part number, so contractors can attach the required documentation to tender responses and handover packs without chasing the manufacturer. Sequential foot/meter markings and SCP's cable labelling system are printed on the jacket, allowing accurate length reporting from the box and easier fault location years after commissioning.
