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Wiring Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randall Watanabe)
Thu Mar 28 17:03:07 2002
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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:22:25 -1000
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From: Randall Watanabe <randallw@HAWAII.EDU>
To: RESNET-L@listserv.nd.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20020326131237.02acffc8@mail.ilstu.edu>
Hi all,
We are currently looking at doing a significant rewiring in most of our
buildings to replace the VERY OLD existing cable that is supposedly "almost"
cat3 quality. The current proposal is to rewire to provide gigabit Ethernet
over copper to the desktop. Basically what I'm wondering is if you had an
opportunity to pull new wires, where cost IS a factor, what would you put
into the buildings? Here's what I'm currently thinking:
Our current wiring is good enough to support 10Mbps to the desktop. If we
were to somehow eliminate the bandwidth bottleneck currently in our main
connection to the 'net, is there a justifiable need for students to have
more than a 10Mbps connection each? If not now, when will 10Mbps be
insufficient for legitimate academic needs?
What kind of NIC will be standard in 5 years? 10? Will it be cards
supporting gigabit Ethernet over UTP or will it be fiber NICS?
If 10Mbps is enough to last for 5 years, after which time fiber NICS become
more widespread, then shouldn't we wait on rewiring for a few years until we
can go straight to fiber? At the same time, if 10Mbps becomes too slow in 3
years and UTP is still the standard wiring out there then we would be wise
to put in higher quality copper now.
So what would you all advise?
Thanks in advance for all responses, and if I'm not making sense please be
sure to let me know.
Randall Watanabe
Resnet Computer Specialist
UH Student Housing Services
randallw@hawaii.edu
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