Best Practice Recommendations
Switched 10Base-T
- Less susceptible to response time delays
- More robust as traffic increases
- Provides the best cost-performance tradeoff
- Costs almost the same as Shared 10Base-T
Category 5 or 5e cables
- Costs almost the same as cat3
- Provides room for upgrades to 100Base-T or 100Base-T
Fiber
- LAN with very high traffic needs
- Used with switched 100Base-T or 1 GbE
- Currently expensive