General Cable Expands Its Large Pair Offering in Category 3 Plenum

Highland Heights, KY, September 12, 2002 - In keeping up with the demands of the industry, General Cable expands its Category 3 plenum large pair count offering to include 200 and 300 pair backbone cables. Designed and engineered for voice and data networks, these cables are an economical solution for today's backbone applications which include 100 VG-AnyLAN, 52 Mbps ATM, 4 Mbps Token Ring, 10BASE–T, T1, and voice. All of General Cable’s Category 3 products meet the Category 3 Power Sum NEXT backbone transmission requirements and comply with ANSI/TIA/EIA 568-B.2 and ANSI/ICEA S-90-66.

General Cable’s comprehensive line of Category 3 products includes plenum and non-plenum cables in pair counts from 2 pair to 300 pair. These new Category voice cables complement General Cable’s GenSPEED line of Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) Category 5e and Category 6 data cables, providing the industry with the highest performing networking products on the market. General Cable’s high performance Category 5e and Category 6 cable products are designed to operate within 10Base-T through 1000Base-T protocol as well as exceed TIA/EIA 568-B.2 and B.2-1 standards respectively.

General Cable (NYSE: BGC), headquartered in Highland Heights, Kentucky, is a leader in the development, design, manufacture, marketing and distribution of copper, aluminum and fiber optic wire and cable products for the communications, energy and specialty markets. The Company offers competitive strengths in such areas as breadth of product line, brand recognition, distribution and logistics, sales and service and operating efficiency. Communications wire and cable products transmit low-voltage signals for voice, data, video and control applications. Energy cables include low-, medium- and high-voltage power distribution and power transmission products. The Specialty segment is comprised of application-specific cables for uses such as electrical power generation (traditional fuels, alternative and renewable sources, and distributed generation), the oil, gas and petrochemical industries, mining, industrial automation, automotive, marine, military and aerospace applications, power applications in the telecommunications industry, and other key industrial segments. Visit our website at www.GeneralCable.com.

Release No. 0401
09/12/02