Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!km
From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Network Wiring Scheme
Message-ID: <4762@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 06:03:20 GMT
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Lines: 16

Our campus network hardware people have adopted the following
plan for wiring buildings for "networking". They wire every
office with "type 2" twisted pair cable to a phone closet.
They like the flexibility of this, since they can later decide
whether to do twisted pair ethernet, token ring, rs232, etc.
I guess this is the IBM wiring plan.

Does this seem like a reasonable approach? I thought ethernet
over twisted pair was mainly for buildings with exising cabling
in the walls. Our people are doing new wiring this way even
when they know its for ethernet.
-- 
Ken Mandelberg      | km@mathcs.emory.edu          PREFERRED
Emory University    | {decvax,gatech}!emory!km     UUCP 
Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet              NON-DOMAIN BITNET  
Atlanta, GA 30322   | Phone: (404) 727-7963