On 21 July 2013 17:09, Justin M. Streiner <[email protected]> wrote:
> One other thing that we've been factoring in is the cost of large numbers > of copper cable runs, and the number of IDFs per floor/building. Plenum- > rated shielded Cat6A is much more of a pain to manage than Cat5E (much > thicker cable, much less flexible), so necessity starts to dictate more > IDFs to serve a given number of data ports. Trying to manage a few hundred > runs of Cat6A into a single IDF is an exercise in futility. > > It's interesting that even the Cat 6500 family now has a "fabric extender" option for distributing switching capability into smaller/more localised wiring closets. Aled _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
