Family-owned and supplying cable for over two decades
Stock positioned across the country, closest to your job
Channel-tested structured cabling, registered installs
A hospital wing renovation involves cables around patients. The corridors stay open, the work windows shorten, and every ceiling that opens above an occupied floor is an air-handling space. The BOM that comes out of that reality is mostly plenum. Cat 6A shielded for the clinical network and imaging suites, FPLP fire alarm for the life safety circuits, access control composite for the pharmacy and newborn wing, speaker wire for overhead paging, and thermostat wire for the controls layer. Commodity Cables keeps all of it on the shelf. The business opened in 2001 and has since built a distribution footprint that reaches 11 locations.
| Cable Family | What We Stock | Facility Application |
|---|---|---|
| Cat 6A plenum shielded | 23 AWG 4-pair, shielded builds with CMP listing, 10G at 500MHz over 100 meters | Clinical networks, imaging rooms, PoE medical devices |
| Cat 6 plenum | 23 AWG 4-pair U/UTP, 600MHz, CMP, 75°C, DC 300V | Administrative wings and guest WiFi back-of-house |
| Fire alarm cable | FPLP and FPLR, 14 to 22 AWG unshielded plus 16 and 14 shielded, 300V | Life safety circuits, smoke detectors, voice evacuation |
| Access control composite | 22/3PR shielded plus 18/4C, 22/4C, 22/2C under one CMP jacket | Pharmacy, newborn, behavioral health, and server room doors |
| Shielded security cable | 18/2 and 18/4 shielded, plenum and riser, CMP CL3P FPLP / CMR CL3R FPLR | CCTV, infant protection, intercom |
| Speaker cable | 16/2 and 16/4, 65-strand oxygen-free copper, 300V, 75°C | Overhead paging and waiting area audio |
| Thermostat wire | 18 and 20 AWG solid, 2 to 12 conductors, CL3, sun resistant | Zone controls and isolation room monitoring |
Clinical space is an electrically noisy space. Imaging suites, surgical equipment, and variable frequency drives share the building with a network carrying charts, monitoring, and PoE devices. Shielded cable is how the spec answers that environment. The foil keeps the noise off the pairs carrying patient data.
Cat 6A shielded plenum runs 23 AWG four-pair construction tested to ANSI/TIA 568-C.2 for 10GBASE-T at 500MHz over 100 meters, with the CMP listing for the air-handling ceilings above patient floors. The 6ACMP234Rx build carries a 90°C temperature rating, which matters on PoE runs to access points and medical devices where the load never cycles off, plus FEP insulation and IEEE 802.3 application coverage including PoE+.
Administrative wings and back-of-house runs do not need the shield, so they pull Cat 6 plenum 6CMP234Bx, 23 AWG four-pair U/UTP tested to 600MHz at 75°C in a pull box. The 35-year structured cabling warranty applies to eligible category cable builds.
Life safety circuits in a hospital run plenum almost everywhere, and the FPLP line is stocked to match the schedule. Unshielded FPLP builds span FPLP182URR at 18/2 through FPLP144URR at 14/4, annealed solid bare copper with FR-PVC insulation and jacket, suggested 300V, -20°C to +75°C.
Shielded FPLP162SRR and FPLP142SRR are for voice evacuation, where the circuit shares a pathway with other systems and the 0.38mm tinned copper drain over aluminum foil keeps that interference off the signal. Riser routes pull the FPLR family from 22/4 to 14/2.
Every reel prints sequential marks every 2 feet with a rip cord and the UL E498766 listing.
The doors that matter in a hospital are the secured ones. Pharmacy, newborn, behavioral health, and server rooms pull access control composite ACCCMP184223RX, one CMP and CL2P jacket carrying a 22 AWG 3-pair shielded reader circuit, 18/4 lock power, 22/4 REX or spare, and 22/2 door contact, ETL verified from -25°C to +75°C. The composite exists so those four circuits go through the frame as one cable instead of four.
The same shielded 18 AWG security family, 1802SCMPBX and 1804SCMPRX feeds CCTV and infant protection; 18/2 and 18/4 builds with aluminum mylar shielding and a tinned drain. Plenum routes get the CMP, CL3P, FPLP builds, and riser routes get the CMR, CL3R, FPLR builds, all rated 300V from -4°C to 75°C under NEC Articles 725, 760, and 800.
Nurse call cable and intercom wiring run on those same power-limited circuits, which is why integrators source nurse call and security wire from the same shelf.
Overhead paging rides 16/2 SPK162B5x and 16/4 SPK164B5x speaker wire, 65-strand oxygen-free copper rated 300V at 75°C, with the four-conductor build feeding 70V tap lines to ceiling speakers.
Zone controls and isolation room monitoring pull thermostat wire, 18 and 20 AWG solid bare copper in 2 to 12 conductor counts, CL3 and CL2 listed and sun-resistant for the rooftop units. Both families sit in the same catalog as the network, life safety, and security cable, which is the point. One PO covers the wing.
A medical facility wing pulls Cat 6A shielded for the clinical network, FPLP fire alarm for life safety, access control composite for secured doors, shielded 18 AWG for CCTV and infant protection, speaker wire for paging, and thermostat wire for controls. Commodity Cables stocks those families in one catalog so the renovation answers to one PO.
The Cat 6A plenum build carries CMP at 90°C, the fire alarm line carries FPLP, the shielded security family carries CMP, CL3P, and FPLP, and the access control composite carries CMP and CL2P. Spec sheets list every rating before the order goes out.
Yes. The families are quoted together from one warehouse inventory; availability is confirmed during quoting, and every spec sheet is downloadable beforehand, so the full package ships as one settled order.
Cabling a hospital, clinic, or medical office building? Call 866-945-5051 or get a quote. Stocked orders placed by 2:30 PM ship the same day.
Contact Us Today!
866-945-5051