a. This is an interesting question for re-utilizing cabling infrastructure, and the answer is tricky. The short answer is NO, as per the standard, but in most the cases, potentially yes.
b. The standard does support a wide variety of cables. Which cables? Any cable that meets those characteristics: (go to slide with cable’s characteristics).
c. Although we have built extra headroom to accommodate cables with worst performance to allow more robustness and practical use cases.