Excel Category 6 and Category 6A systems are amongst a small number in the structured cabling industry to achieve both channel and component‑level third‑party verification. This dual approach provides a far higher level of assurance than channel compliance alone and reflects Excel’s uncompromising approach to performance, quality, and transparency.
Excel products are submitted to accredited independent laboratories Force Technology and 3P, for testing against recognised ISO, EN, and TIA cabling standards. These standards define strict performance requirements not only for a complete installed channel, as found in real‑world environments, but also for the individual components that make up that channel.
Manufacturers may choose to submit individual elements – such as cable, keystone jacks, patch panels, or patch cords – for testing in isolation. This is known as component‑level certification, where each product must independently meet or exceed the requirements of the relevant standard.
Alternatively, a manufacturer can submit a fully terminated four‑connector channel configuration, built in a factory environment to represent a typical field installation. While many cabling manufacturers are able to demonstrate channel compliance, channel certification alone can be easier to achieve. Performance can be balanced across the channel by designing certain components to exceed requirements in order to compensate for others that only marginally meet the specified limits.
With component certification, there is no hiding place. Every individual product must pass independently, without reliance on compensation elsewhere in the system. This represents the most demanding and transparent form of third‑party verification and is the true measure of a manufacturer committed to delivering consistently high performance.
For Excel, component and channel verification together provide absolute confidence that every Category 6 and Category 6A system delivers predictable, standards‑compliant performance – not just as a system, but at every connection point within it.
