I'm at the start of planning a new building and I'm being asked to justify Cat6a over Cat5e in the walls to desks.
We use mainly web-based apps with some small file storage on site. About 150 desks with laptops and voiphones on them.
Looking at our switch bandwidth graphs I'm seeing data transfer of 1-5Mbps on average for most users (exception detailed below).
I'm being told by our cabling guy that "Cat6A future proofs you", but I'm failing to see how we're going to get anywhere near the limits of Cat5e in the next 10 years at this rate.
Is it really worth the hassle of the bigger cabling, the larger bend radius, the cost of the faceplates and the patchpanels for 6A?
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Exception: We have some video editors who have their own NAS unit on a 10Gb fibre network which sites on its own VLAN so doesn't come into the scope of this project.
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