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The Complete Guide to IT Support for Legal Firms
14 Aug, 2025

£78.83 inc. VAT
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I’ll be blunt: for a plain Cat6 copper patch lead, £65.69 ex-VAT for a 3 m cable feels overpriced. In most UK office and datacentre installs, the “brand-name cable” won’t suddenly make your network faster or more stable than a decent, properly made alternative—you’re mainly paying for build quality and packaging, and you typically won’t notice that day-to-day. Unless you have a specific Lenovo supply requirement for compliance, standardisation, or procurement convenience, I’d look elsewhere first.
Who *should* buy it: teams standardising on Lenovo hardware, buyers with strict internal catalogues, or estates/partners who only want Lenovo-labelled parts for spares and change control. Who should *skip* it: anyone just needing a few short patch leads between a rack and patch panel/switch—especially when your priority is value for money. If you can get a reputable Cat6 patch cable from a known networking cable vendor for meaningfully less, that’s the smarter spend and your links will behave the same.

HP
HP Poly APV-63 - Electronic hook switch adapter for phone - TAA Compliant

Lenovo
Lenovo Passive Direct Attach Cable - 10GBase direct attach cable - SFP+ (M) to SFP+ (M) - 5 m - passive - for ThinkAgile HX2320 Appliance, ThinkSystem DE4000H Hybrid, DM5000, SD630 V2

Dell
Dell Networking 10GbE Copper Twinax Direct Attach Cable - Direct attach cable - SFP+ (M) to SFP+ (M) - 1 m - twinaxial - for Networking N1148P-ON, PowerSwitch S4112F-ON, S4112T-ON, S5212F-ON, S5232F-ON, S5296F-ON

STARTECH
StarTech.com Juniper EX-QSFP-40GE-DAC-50CM Compatible 0.5m 40G QSFP+ to QSFP+ Direct Attach Cable Twinax, 40GbE QSFP+ Copper DAC 40Gbps Low Power Passive Transceiver Module DAC QSFP+ Cable - Lifetime Warranty (EXQSFP4050CM) - 40GBase direct attach cable - QSFP+ latched to QSFP+ latched - 50 cm - twinaxial - SFF-8436 - passive - black