The costs that result from poorly planned and poorly implemented cabling systems can be staggering.
For Example:
A customer, moved into a new office space and to save money, used the existing cabling, which was supposed to be CAT 5. Almost immediately, 100Mbps network users reported intermittent problems.
These problems include exceptionally slow access times when reading e-mail, saving documents, and using the sales database. Other users reported that applications running under Windows were locking up, which often caused then to have to reboot their PC.
After many months of network annoyances, this customer finally had the cable runs tested, many did not certify due to improper installation, many other runs were improperly terminated and installed poorly.
The costs, the company lost over $15,000 in service for troubleshooting all these intermittent problems, over the months. This cost doesn't include the lost revenue, production and frustration which occurred during these months either.
Platinum installed new cabling and certified all runs, afterward performance was extremely fast and the problems went away. It pays to have it done right! Learn about proper cable installation.