It depends. Each situation is different. For example, those who had 6/6A installed in office complexes to replace cat5/5e or in "Greenfield" will be okay as there is currently 1/2.5/5/10Gbps over copper, with 25 (and I think 50Gbps?) on the horizon using that cabling. No need to rewire the whole building for many years to come.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, I haven't ever been able to see a legit need for cat6. GigE works > perfectly fine with cat5e, and if you anticipate needing anything beyond > that, it's stupid to not just go straight to fiber. I've thought about using > Cat6 on towers with long runs so there'd be less voltage drop on PoE, but I > came to the conclusion that we'd be better off running a separate cable for > DC if that was a concern. > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Not in my opinion. You can accomplish all you need with copper up to 1Gbps >> with 5e. You need to go faster or farther, you can go to fiber. >> >> >> bp >> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >> >> >> On 7/25/2016 3:19 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: >>> >>> I really dislike CAT 6. Is there a legit need for the stuff? >> >> >
