About Copper CAT 5 tops out at 155 megabits per second. Some solutions has quadrupled the CAT 5 speed limit to 622 megabits per seconds, and brought full 550 MHz broadband video to the desktop in a copper cabling system that can make your later migration to fiber easier than ever. Gigabit cabling can be more economical than fiber. Some of the benefits are obvious, such as the unquestionable value of prime, high-tech office space. Others may surprise you.
Maintenance is simpler, operating costs are lower, and management flexibility is nearly limitless.
Consider the systems going into your building. You save even more by paring down your construction time by days, or weeks because, every cabling route for every system in the building is installed by one team, using one cabling pathway, not five. Cut Budgets, Personnel, and Problems. A great deal of money, of course. But it could cost four to five times that much to operate your building over its entire 40-year life cycle.