Nothing special required, but just be careful of freebee cables chucked in with older equipment - they may not have all the pins connected so can restrict the speed.
Chorus supplies Cat5 with their ONTs and it's perfectly fine for gigabit connections. There's a good chance you'll get 10Gb on Cat5 it over a short distances, but that would be out of spec.
Even if you're not on a gigabit connection, Ethernet only supports 100Mb and 1Gb, so a sub-gig connection still requires a cable that supports gigabit Ethernet.
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