My initial plan was to drop ethernet to each workspace where the tenant could plug in whatever switch/AP they wanted, with each endpoint switch/AP being supplied a signal by separate port on a managed switch of mine with port-based VLAN turned on to segregate each endpoint. Then I discovered that it's not possible to get ethernet into each space....
Now I'm looking at the Coax lines. Each space already has coax and it's not being used for anything. I've tested and confirmed that the coax lines can handle 100mbps. I was looking at using MoCA, but now comes the complication... I only have ONE Coax jack in the network closet, which connects via 8-way splitter downstream to each workspace's coax jack. I've read plenty about MoCA and am confident this would be easy if I didn't need each endpoint to be invisible to all the others. I've never deployed 802.1q VLANs, but if I understand correctly I would have to have a managed switch at each endpoint which I can't do. Now my infantile brain is out of ideas so here I am..
TL;DR - how can I take a single switch port, push internet from one to 8 already-live coax jacks using MoCA, and then segregate each of the 8 endpoints so they're all invisible to each other?
TIA
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