Yealink USB2CAT5E-EXT Extender

One CAT5e run from the display to the table, carrying USB data and power.

The Yealink USB2CAT5E-EXT extends USB over CAT5e cable, letting peripherals be placed nearly anywhere in a meeting room. One CAT5e run connects the TV area to the table for both data and power, with no separate supply or extension cables.

One CAT5e run replaces USB cable and a power supply
Puts USB peripherals anywhere in the room
Uses structured cabling the building already has

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SPECIFICATIONS

Function USB extension over CAT5e

Cable A single CAT5e run

Carries Data and power together

Removes The need for a separate supply or extension cables

Use TV area to conference table

Description

USB has a distance limit. The specification allows a few metres, and beyond that a passive cable simply stops working - not gracefully, but with devices that appear and disappear or never enumerate at all. In a meeting room that limit lands exactly where it is least convenient: between the display, where the camera and the video bar are, and the table, where the microphones, the touch console and the sharing hub need to be.

The usual improvisations are all bad. A long USB cable with an in-line repeater works until it does not, and fails intermittently in a way that gets blamed on the software. Daisy-chained extension cables are worse. Moving the peripherals to the display solves the electrical problem and creates a usability one, because a microphone by the screen does not hear the table and a console on the wall is not where anyone is sitting.

Extending USB over structured cabling solves it properly, and Yealink's own framing is the best summary of why this product exists: one CAT5e is enough to connect the TV area to the conference table area for data transmission and power supply, without additional power supply or extension cables. Both halves of that matter. Data over CAT5e covers the distance reliably, because the signalling is converted to something twisted-pair cable carries well. And power travelling the same run means no socket is needed at the table end - which on a solid floor or a table that people move is often harder to arrange than the data.

The practical benefit is that room layout stops being dictated by cable length. Peripherals can go where they work best rather than where they will reach, and Yealink put it plainly: users can place USB peripherals nearly anywhere in the meeting room.

The other advantage is that CAT5e is what the building already has. A structured cable run is something any electrician or cabling contractor can install, terminate and test, and it can be pulled through the same containment as everything else - through a floor box, up a table leg, or along a cable tray. A specialist USB cable is a consumable that has to be ordered, is a fixed length, and cannot be terminated on site. On a programme fitting out several rooms, that difference decides the schedule.

Features

Beats the USB distance limit. Reliably, rather than intermittently the way a long cable with a repeater does.
Data and power on one run. No socket needed at the table end, which is often the harder thing to arrange.
No extension cables or extra supply. Yealink's stated benefit, and one fewer thing to fail.
Layout led by use. Peripherals placed where they work rather than where they reach.
Ordinary structured cabling. Installed, terminated and tested by any cabling contractor.
Uses existing containment. Floor boxes, table legs and cable tray, like every other cable in the room.
Repeatable across rooms. Cut to length on site, so a multi-room fit-out is not waiting on cable deliveries.

Applications

Any room where the peripherals and the display are more than a few metres apart.

Medium and large meeting rooms. Display on the wall, console and microphones on the table.
Boardrooms. Long tables where nothing reaches.
Training rooms. Peripherals at the presenter position.
Rooms with floor boxes. Running through existing containment to the table position.
Multi-room fit-outs. Cable cut to length on site rather than ordered per room.
Rooms with awkward geometry. Where the display and the seating are not close together.

Support & Documents

PT Vivo Asia Teknologi Indonesia supplies collaboration and recording equipment as a fitted, working room rather than as a boxed item. Our scope typically covers:

Room survey: seating, sightlines, acoustics and display sizing.
Selection to suit the room size and the platform you already run.
Mounting, cabling, power and network design, including any extension runs.
Supply, installation, termination and commissioning.
Enrolment into your tenant, room resource setup and device management.
User handover and training, with ongoing support and maintenance.

Model availability, licensing and electrical details vary by variant and are confirmed against the current manufacturer datasheet at quotation stage. Tell us the room dimensions, the seat count and the platform you use, and we will come back with the right configuration and a full bill of materials.

Use the enquiry button above for a datasheet, a specification or a project quotation.