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Reason to upgrade??
Hey guys, I work for a very small company that is about to make a move to another suite in our current office building. We have a company coming in to get everything wired up in the new office in a co...
It sounds like you see no urgent need to upgrade your equipment, but if you are planning to stay in the new suite for the long term you might consider your wiring.
- At some point in the future you should consider migrating to a gigabit network. This would get you faster speeds in transferring data between the workstations.
- There is also a trend towards VOIP (voice over IP) phones that are connected to your internet.
In order to future-proof your wiring, I would have cat6 cable installed for the network up front, preferably with 2 ethernet jacks in each office/work area (allowing for phone and workstation). It's easy to replace your hub and router (and either can be upgraded at any time). But updating the wiring later on would be more disruptive.
BTW, how do you manage backups today? Even a small office needs some form of backup/recovery plan. If you want to address this, you would want to migrate to gigabit ethernet sooner, since network backup takes quite a bit of time over 100 megabit ethernet. A ReadyNAS file server would be a reasonable investment, along with backup software for the workstations.
- At some point in the future you should consider migrating to a gigabit network. This would get you faster speeds in transferring data between the workstations.
- There is also a trend towards VOIP (voice over IP) phones that are connected to your internet.
In order to future-proof your wiring, I would have cat6 cable installed for the network up front, preferably with 2 ethernet jacks in each office/work area (allowing for phone and workstation). It's easy to replace your hub and router (and either can be upgraded at any time). But updating the wiring later on would be more disruptive.
BTW, how do you manage backups today? Even a small office needs some form of backup/recovery plan. If you want to address this, you would want to migrate to gigabit ethernet sooner, since network backup takes quite a bit of time over 100 megabit ethernet. A ReadyNAS file server would be a reasonable investment, along with backup software for the workstations.
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