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Best Plenum-Rated Cat6 Cable for Commercial Installs

CMP-jacketed Cat6 for air-handling spaces — non-terminated solid and stranded boxes alongside finished patch cords, with live pricing and availability on every card.

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AddOn 1000ft Non-Terminated Blue CAT6 Plenum-Rated Solid Bulk Cable CAT…

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The default horizontal-run box: 1000ft of non-terminated blue Cat6, solid conductor, 24 AWG, unshielded twisted pair with a plenum jacket, bare wire at both ends. Solid conductor is what a permanent link wants and what insulation-displacement terminations are built for, and blue is the colour most schemes reserve for general data — which makes this the box a floor of ordinary drops gets pulled from.

$1,054.32In stock
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Second colour

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AddOn 1000ft Non-Terminated Green CAT6 Plenum-Rated Solid Bulk Cable…

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The same 1000ft non-terminated solid Cat6 plenum box in green at 24 AWG. Buying a second colour rather than a second box of the first is the cheapest documentation on a cabling job: one colour per service, per floor or per VLAN family survives the label falling off, and it turns a later fault-find into a look rather than a trace.

$1,107.68In stock
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Stranded box

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AddOn 1000ft Non-Terminated Blue CAT6 Plenum-Rated Stranded Bulk Cable…

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A 1000ft non-terminated blue Cat6 plenum box built with stranded conductor at 23 AWG rather than solid. This is the box for a shop that builds its own cords to length instead of stocking a wall of finished assemblies — stranded construction tolerates the flexing a patch lead sees, which solid conductor is specifically not intended for.

$1,146.32In stock
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TAA-marked bulk

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AddOn 1000ft Non-Terminated Black CAT6 Plenum-Rated Solid Bulk Cable…

ADD-CAT6BULK1KP-BK-TAA

A 1000ft non-terminated black Cat6 box, solid conductor at 24 AWG, with the jacket titled Plenum and OFNP. The reason to specify it is the marking rather than the colour: this is the bulk variant whose own title carries the TAA designation, which is what a federal purchase order with an origin clause will ask you to point at.

The manufacturer's title records this part number as TAA Compliant. It is a per-part fact — other colours in the same family are titled with and without the marking, so read it on the exact part you order.

$1,384.60Back-ordered
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Smaller box

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AddOn 500ft Non-Terminated Blue CAT6 Plenum-Rated Solid Bulk Cable CAT 6

ADD-CAT6BULK500FP-BE

Five hundred feet of non-terminated blue Cat6 plenum cable, solid conductor at 24 AWG, titled at 1 Gbit/s. The right size for a small job — a handful of drops in a fit-out, a tenant improvement, a closet relocation — where a 1000ft box would leave most of a reel on a shelf until it is lost.

$647.68Back-ordered
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Long haul in the ceiling

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AddOn 1000ft Non-Terminated Blue CAT6 Plenum-Rated Solid Bulk Cable CAT…

ADD-CAT6USBULK1KP-BE

Another 1000ft non-terminated blue solid plenum box at 24 AWG, titled by the manufacturer for network device, patch panel, hub, switch, media converter and router duty. Where a project needs more than one box on the same colour scheme, having two part numbers on the same specification is a practical hedge rather than a redundancy.

$1,146.32In stock
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Short rack cord

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AddOn 6ft Blue CAT6 Plenum-Rated Ethernet Cable Snagless Bubble Boot…

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Six feet of blue Cat6 with a plenum-rated jacket, RJ-45 male at both ends, unshielded twisted pair at 24 AWG with a snagless bubble boot. Six feet is the workhorse rack length: long enough to route through a horizontal manager between a patch panel and a switch, short enough that it does not become a coil hiding the port you need.

$20.24In stock
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Desk length

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AddOn 10ft Blue CAT6 Plenum-Rated Ethernet Cable Snagless Bubble Boot…

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Ten feet of blue plenum-jacketed Cat6 patch cable, RJ-45 male to male, UTP at 24 AWG with a snagless bubble boot. This is the work-area length — outlet to device with enough slack for the desk to move and not so much that the excess ends up under a chair castor. Buying two sensible lengths beats buying one long one for everything.

$27.14In stock
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Longer run cord

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AddOn 25ft Blue CAT6 Plenum-Rated Ethernet Cable Snagless Bubble Boot…

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Twenty-five feet of blue Cat6 on the same plenum jacket, snagless bubble boot, UTP at 24 AWG. The length to keep on hand for the awkward cases — a ceiling-mounted access point, a display at the far wall, a camera on a temporary drop — where a permanent link is not warranted but a 10ft cord will not reach.

$44.16Back-ordered
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High-density panels

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AddOn 15ft Gray CAT6 Plenum-Rated Ethernet Cable Non-Booted RJ-45 M/M…

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Fifteen feet of grey plenum-rated Cat6, RJ-45 male to male, UTP at 24 AWG, and non-booted rather than snagless. The absence of a boot is the point: in a high-density panel the boot on the adjacent cord is what crowds the port you are trying to reach, and grey gives the scheme a neutral lane for management or out-of-band.

$34.50Back-ordered
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TAA-marked cord

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AddOn 25ft Blue CAT6 Plenum-Rated Ethernet Cable Snagless Easy Clear…

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Twenty-five feet of blue plenum Cat6 with a snagless easy clear boot, RJ-45 male at both ends, UTP at 24 AWG. Same length and colour as the standard 25ft cord and a different part number, because this is the variant whose own title carries the TAA designation — which is the difference that matters when the order carries an origin clause.

The manufacturer's title records this part number as TAA Compliant. Read the designation on the exact part number, not on the family: the standard-boot 25ft cord is a separate part and is titled without it.

$56.58Back-ordered
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Short TAA-marked cord

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AddOn 4ft Blue CAT6 Plenum-Rated Ethernet Cable Snagless Easy Clear…

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Four feet of blue Cat6 with a plenum jacket and a snagless easy clear boot, UTP at 24 AWG. The rack-internal length on the TAA-marked line — switch to panel within a single cabinet, where anything longer becomes slack that has to be dressed somewhere. Keeping the short cords on the same marked line as the long ones keeps one answer for the whole order.

The manufacturer's title records this part number as TAA Compliant.

$22.54Back-ordered
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Plenum-rated cable exists because of where the cable goes, not because of what it carries. In a building with a return-air plenum — the space above a suspended ceiling or under a raised floor that the HVAC system moves air through — the communications cable in that space has to be listed for it, and CMP is the listing that says so. A plenum jacket is formulated to resist flame spread and to produce less smoke, which is the whole design intent: in a fire, the plenum is the path that would otherwise distribute smoke through the building. Every part in this grid carries CAT6 and plenum-rated in the manufacturer's own title, which is the fact a general contractor or an inspector will expect you to be able to point at.

What the rating does not do is decide the job for you. Whether a given run needs CMP, CMR riser or general-purpose CM is a code question answered by the adopted edition of the National Electrical Code in your jurisdiction and by the authority having jurisdiction on the project — not by a product page and not by what the last building used. The reliable planning rule is that the plenum spaces on the drawing get plenum cable, and that the moment part of a run is in a plenum, the practical answer is usually to pull plenum for the whole run rather than to splice ratings at a boundary you will have to defend later.

The second decision is conductor and termination. Non-terminated boxes are for permanent horizontal runs: solid conductor, pulled through the pathway, terminated onto jacks and patch panels at both ends, never plugged straight into a device. Finished patch cords are for the ends: stranded or fine-gauge assemblies with boots, flexed and re-plugged, in the rack and at the work area. The titles here name which is which, along with the gauge — 24 AWG on the solid boxes, 23 AWG on the stranded one — the length, the jacket rating and, on several parts, a TAA marking. On this fence the shelf resolves to one manufacturer's plenum Cat6 line, so read it as a range rather than as a comparison between vendors.

Buyer's checklist

How to choose plenum-rated Cat6 cable

  • Confirm which spaces on the drawing are plenum before you price anything. The rating requirement follows the pathway, not the device at the end of it, and it is set by the adopted National Electrical Code edition in your jurisdiction and by the authority having jurisdiction on the project — get that answer from the inspector or the engineer of record, not from a datasheet.
  • Pull solid, patch stranded. Non-terminated solid-conductor boxes are for the permanent horizontal run and terminate onto jacks and panels; stranded assemblies flex and belong at the ends. A solid-conductor cable repeatedly flexed as a patch lead is a fault you will chase later, and the titles here state which construction each part is.
  • Match the box to the run count, not to the wall. These boxes are titled at 500ft and 1000ft; a floor with a dozen drops burns a 1000ft box quickly once you account for the service loop at the panel, the slack at the outlet and the run that has to go around something. Buying the length short is how a job ends with a splice nobody wanted.
  • Use colour as documentation. Every one of these parts names its jacket colour in its own title, and a scheme — one colour per service, per floor or per VLAN family — is the cheapest labelling you will ever buy, because it survives the label falling off.
  • Check the boot style on the patch cords. Snagless boots stop the latch catching as a bundle is dressed; non-booted assemblies fit high-density panels where a boot would crowd the adjacent port. Both appear in these titles, per part.
  • Where the purchase order carries an origin clause, read TAA on the part number itself. Several parts on this shelf carry a TAA marking in their own title and others in the same family do not; screening results are available with your quote on request, tied to the specific part number.
  • Order the terminations with the cable. Jacks, patch panels, faceplates, cable management and the plenum-rated pathway hardware land on the same job, and quoting them together is what avoids a second delivery in the middle of a ceiling.

CMP, CMR and CM — what the jacket rating actually decides

The three common communications cable listings describe fire performance in three different building situations, and the hierarchy runs one way. CMP is the plenum listing, for cable installed in air-handling spaces; CMR is the riser listing, for vertical runs between floors; CM is general purpose, for everything else within a floor. A cable listed for the more demanding situation may generally be used in the less demanding one, which is why an installer standardising on plenum for a mixed building is making a defensible choice rather than an extravagant one — but the substitution never runs the other way, and riser cable in a plenum is the finding that stops a job.

That is the practical shape of the decision, and it is deliberately stated here without a section number, because the number that governs your project is the one in the code edition your jurisdiction has adopted and the interpretation your inspector applies. Adoption lags publication, jurisdictions amend, and a building with a documented ducted-return design may not have a return-air plenum at all. Get the plenum boundaries confirmed on the drawings before the cable is ordered; it is a five-minute question at design stage and a ceiling-by-ceiling re-pull afterwards.

Boxes and cords: what to buy for the run and what to buy for the ends

A structured cabling job is really two purchases. The permanent link is the horizontal run: solid-conductor cable pulled from the closet to the outlet, terminated onto a patch panel at one end and a jack at the other, tested and left alone. On this shelf that is the non-terminated bulk in 500ft and 1000ft boxes, titled at 24 AWG solid with a plenum or OFNP jacket. Solid conductor is what makes that link stable over its life and what insulation-displacement terminations are designed for; it is also why it must never be flexed as a patch lead, because repeated bending is what eventually breaks a solid conductor at the strain point.

The other purchase is the ends. Patch cords connect the panel to the switch in the rack and the outlet to the device at the desk, and they get moved, coiled, trodden on and re-plugged. The finished assemblies here run from 1ft to 150ft with RJ-45 male connectors at both ends and either a snagless bubble boot, a snagless easy clear boot on the TAA-marked parts, or no boot at all. There is also a 1000ft stranded box on this shelf at 23 AWG, which exists for shops that build their own cords to length rather than stocking a wall of them.

Length discipline matters more than it sounds on both halves. In the rack, a cord materially longer than the path it takes becomes a coil that fights the cable manager and hides the port you need; at the work area, an over-long cord is the one that gets caught in a chair castor. Buying two or three sensible lengths in a colour scheme, rather than one long length for everything, is the cheapest tidiness available on a commissioning day.

What ships around a cabling order

Cable is the middle of a job, not the whole of it. Every horizontal run needs a jack and a faceplate at the outlet, a port on a patch panel in the closet, and horizontal cable management to dress into; the closet needs the cabinet or rack that holds all of it, and power for whatever terminates the runs. Where the pathway is new, plenum-rated support hardware, penetrations and firestopping are trade work that has to be scheduled against the delivery rather than after it. And where the install is a certification deliverable, the test results are part of the handover, which means the tester and the labelling scheme belong in the plan from the start.

Uniqcli quotes all of that on one order, and not only the passive parts: the switching the runs terminate on, the racks and enclosures they land in, and the structured cabling, low-voltage and network installation labour that puts them in are quotable alongside the cable. Where the project is a multi-site programme rather than a single floor, standardising the part numbers first is what keeps colour schemes, box lengths and spares identical from site to site.

Send the drawings or the drop count, the plenum boundaries, the colour scheme and the quantities, and we will come back with part numbers, availability, lead times and volume pricing, with the terminations, closet hardware and services lines alongside, before anything is committed.

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Common questions

When do I actually need plenum-rated cable?
When the cable passes through a space the building uses to move return air — most commonly the void above a suspended ceiling or under a raised floor. The requirement follows the pathway rather than the equipment, and it is set by the edition of the National Electrical Code your jurisdiction has adopted and by the authority having jurisdiction on the project, so the answer for your building comes from the inspector or the engineer of record. Two practical notes: not every ceiling void is a plenum, because a fully ducted return may not be one, and where part of a run crosses a plenum it is usually simpler to pull plenum for the whole run than to change rating at a boundary you would have to justify later.
What is the difference between CMP, CMR and CM?
They are three fire-performance listings for three building situations. CMP is the plenum listing, for cable in air-handling spaces. CMR is the riser listing, for vertical runs passing between floors. CM is general purpose, for runs within a floor that are neither. The substitution runs one way only: a cable listed for the more demanding situation may generally be used in the less demanding one, which is why standardising on plenum across a mixed building is a defensible simplification — but riser or general-purpose cable installed in a plenum is a code finding, and finding it after the ceiling is closed is the expensive version.
Should I buy bulk boxes or finished patch cords?
Both, for different halves of the job. Non-terminated boxes are for the permanent horizontal run: solid conductor, pulled through the pathway and terminated onto a jack at the outlet and a patch panel in the closet. The boxes on this page are titled at 500ft and 1000ft, 24 AWG solid. Finished patch cords are for the ends — panel to switch in the rack, outlet to device at the desk — and they are built to be flexed and re-plugged. Never use solid-conductor cable as a patch lead: repeated flexing is what eventually breaks a solid conductor. There is also a stranded 1000ft box on this shelf, at 23 AWG, for shops that build their own cords to length.
Are these plenum Cat6 cables TAA compliant?
It is a per-part-number fact rather than a family rule, and this shelf is mixed: several parts here carry a TAA marking in the manufacturer's own title — including 4ft and 25ft patch cords and 1000ft non-terminated boxes in six colours — while otherwise similar parts in the same family do not. Where our catalog data records a part number as TAA compliant, that is what we are reporting: our catalog data records this part number as TAA compliant. Screening is performed before the quote and screening results are available with your quote on request, tied to the specific part number and never restated as a Uniqcli certification.
Can business, government and education buyers order these?
Every line Uniqcli quotes is sourced through US distribution and screened for TAA country-of-origin and NDAA §889 status before checkout — with documentation tied to the specific part number, not a product family.
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