Although swapping a Cat-5e patch cable with a Cat-7 one between a network port and computer is easy enough, replacing all the network cable already pulled through the conduits of a ‘future ...

WA sure does seem to take the black art of cable manufacture seriously. When they read the Cat 6 specification, they knew they couldn’t just keep building the cables the way they used to.

and CAT 7 remain relevant since all of these cables are backward compatible. Today’s Ethernet cables are mostly CAT6 or higher. Earlier standards, CAT1-5, primarily facilitated telephone lines ...