When’s the last time you thought about the network wires in your school’s walls? Probably not recently. Cabling is one of those features of our networks that we often take for granted. We plug in a phone, desktop or server, the link comes up, and that’s about the end of it.
However, the importance of network cabling can’t be overstated. As our schools come to rely more on wireless connectivity, the quality of the cable that backhauls our wireless traffic from the access point to the internet matters. The cable uplinking an access point impacts all devices using that AP.
Ethernet network…