There are many advantages and reasons to use UTP Category 6 cabling today...

Cabling today for Business and Residential environtments support a large and growing  number of applications including:

• Voice Telephony
• Data Networking
• Entertainment Equipment
• Home Automation
  

In the past, these applications required individually cabling and separate equipment with no interaction between applications. These applications today which include Internet Access, TV, Home Theater, whole-house audio, lighting control and security systems are now converging into a single cabling infrastructure.

Residential environments can easily require more bandwidth with applications such as streaming video that are more demanding than business data or voice applications were a Fast Ethernet network (100Base-T) is often more than enough.