Cabling outlives most other IT decisions — it's in the walls for a decade. Choosing well now saves an expensive re-pull later.
Cat6
Handles 1 Gbps comfortably and 10 Gbps only over short runs. Fine for a small office with modest needs and no major growth planned.
Cat6A
Supports 10 Gbps over the full 100-metre run with better shielding against interference and crosstalk. For most modern offices it's the sweet spot — future-proof, PoE-friendly and reasonably priced.
Fiber
Used for the backbone — linking floors, buildings and server rooms — and for high-bandwidth or long-distance links. It complements copper rather than replacing it at the desk.
A practical rule of thumb
- Desks and access points → Cat6A (Cat6 only for small, static offices).
- Backbone between floors/server rooms → fiber.
- Always install to structured-cabling standards, with proper racks and patch panels.
NIXCO designs and installs structured and fiber cabling, racks and patch panels, then tests the network end to end.