Geoffrey Settle Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 As part of my next assignment for my course I need to research into the business benefits of upgrading to CAT7 Ethernet. Does anyone have an example of a suitable case study or a few bullet points on the potential or actual organizational benefits of upgrading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Chaos Posted April 15, 2008 Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 Try Robert Bosch UK they have re-cabled with cat 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted April 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2008 Many thanks spot on and so fast web page - case study . How did you know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted May 4, 2008 Report Share Posted May 4, 2008 category 7 is still only in the draft standard stage of ratification. As far as I am aware, there is currently no test equipment on the market which will test to the full 10gig requirements of cat 7. As with the last updates to the TIA/EIA standards; it always seems to me to be a money spinner in one way or another. Category 5 did 100Mhz. Category 5e 1000Mhz as did category 6. There were category 6 systems in place long before the equipment was either available or affordable to most companies and even now most general installations are still category 5e. The category 7 standards will only be ratified after the big cable manufacturers have proven that their systems can achieve those set limits. If they can't the standards will be downgraded to fit the infrastructures already installed. This has happened previously because by the time the TIA/EIA get round to ratifying the standards, there are already too many systems in place and they don't want to upset the applecart by admitting to all those customers that the systems don't meet the standards... particularly when the installer hands out a 25 year installation warranty! have a look here... http://www.htdata.co.uk/standards.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted May 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 Thanks Baz for the link, as you say CAT 7 has a long way to go if it goes at all which is why it was chosen as a topic so thanks for the info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted August 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Hi Captain Chaos & Baz - many thanks for the references - I finished my report last Thursday and pinged it off to be assessed. That was only task 1 of two for this module on Networks - I now have until the 28th to complete the 2nd one but I will start another thread for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RENT-A-GOAT Posted August 13, 2008 Report Share Posted August 13, 2008 Why bother running gigabit to the desktop at all? If it must be done then the way copper prices are it's probably cheaper to run fibre to your desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted August 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2008 True Fibre costs continue to fall but then so do advances in technology to make use of existing copper wire. Therefore is this is the case why go to the expense of replacing exisiting copper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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