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Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by EvanAnderson on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:53PM (#30874036)
I recently worked with an architect who was incredulous when I specified structured cabling be added to the plans for the building (a 16,000 sq. ft. building housing 3 separate office suites). The architect assured me it's very uncommon today, in their firm, to see "outdated" technology like wired networking used.

The building is getting structured cabling.

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Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by fartcannon on Thursday March 31, 2022 @11:47PM (#30874972)
Architects sometimes feel like the Mac users of the engineering world. Maybe it's not fashionable anymore to have headphone jack, but the utility of it is immeasurable and you'll really miss it when you need it.
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Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by rvba on Friday April 01, 2022 @05:59AM (#30876616)
Architects are just designers that design how the building looks - then engineers need to come and do something from those nice visualisations.
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Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by iso1631 on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:27AM (#30876246)
How do they run power to the access points without using "outdated" tech?
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Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by Nextgrid on Friday April 01, 2022 @06:02AM (#30876624)
The kind of person that considers Ethernet to be "outdated" tech also thinks that a single access point hidden somewhere in a basement is sufficient to cover the entire property, so no need to run Ethernet for PoE either.
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Re:Their secret for workplace Zen: Landlines and ethernet cords by EvanAnderson on Friday April 01, 2022 @10:57AM (#30878689)
I was too shocked to ask. Now that I think about it, though, off-brand mesh APs hanging from wall warts situated on filing cabinets, cube walls, top the the refrigerator in the break room, etc, was probably the "enterprise" strategy they had in mind.
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