Our office is getting a serious make over and we are looking into updating our network infrastructure.
My idea was to just update our current cat5e cables to cat6 but my boss (not an IT guy) doesn't want to use cables anymore, he wants to go fully wireless.
My first concern was of course the speed, we have an art department who needs to transfer large graphic files from and to the server.
My boss main reason to go wireless is because he is afraid in couple of years a new cable standard is coming out and he has to redo all the wires.
So now I'm looking for arguments to convince him to still go for wires. Speed, security, continuity, … The top reason for him would of course be the cost.
Any advice?
It's a network for about 25 people.
Best Answer
Your boss is, imho, barking mad. For a start you still need to wire the building to provide a backbone for the wireless access points to connect to, and secondly wired connections are both more reliable and much faster than wireless.
As Julien suggests, these days you should probably look to do both anyway, and as xciter says, if you install modern cabling standards then these should have plenty of life in them - and more to the point, if your bosses theories about wired standards going out of date are true, then how does he propose to connect the wireless access points to the backbone if the standards change? And what happens when wireless standards go "out of date".