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Don’t get strung up on which cabling to choose for your enterprise RobWessels, vice president, Cable Research and Development, CommScope Inc Most enterprises today pay little attention to the type of cabling they use when laying the framework for their IT infrastructure. When in fact, cabling supports every part of an enterprise – from business services to cloud access and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies – and is the foundation for all the commercial strategies related to the basic infrastructure. With increasing intolerance for downtime, the choice of cabling can have a direct impact on a company’s market reputa-

tion. Since the initial publication of the Ethernet standardalmost 30 years ago, data rates have skyrocketed. The 40 and 100 GbE standards ratified by the IEEE 802.3ba committee in 2010 are a far cry from the early 10 megabits per second connections of the 1980s. With this pace of technological change increasing every year, many CTOs and IT managers can be understandably confused by the choices they face when selecting the best cabling for their company. CAT fight? It’s clear that deploying solutions today that will require time-consuming and expensive upgrades in the future is by no means a cost-effective strategy.

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