Why not use wireless instead of rewiring the entire campus?
There are multiple reasons why wireless is not a panacea for the cost of upgrading the existing CAT 3 wiring infrastructure. First, the minimum wired transport rate for the upgrade is faster than current wireless transport rates. The current Upgrade provides for selective 1 Gbps wired data transport, which is up to 9000 percent faster than the current wireless rate of 802.11b. In projecting data transport requirements for the next 10 years, given the growth of high-bandwidth applications since 1987, it would not be prudent to design to such a small incremental improvement. In addition, within the year, the core network data transport rate will be 10 Gbps. Second, the density of the campus would invariably result in mutual interference of access points. This would reduce availability and reliability of the wireless network. Third, every wireless access point must be wired to the core network via CAT 5 (or greater) cable. A significant wired infrastructure is required to support the curr
