Infrastructure
For the Acacia school project, Gigabit Ethernet was chosen for both horizontal and vertical cabling. This choice was made as opposed to a combination of Fiber and Cat-5 given the distinct advantages that it has. Gigabit Ethernet provides scalability, compared to Cat-5 for obvious load-capacity reasons. It is also more of a financially reasonable solution to this particular LAN design, rather than Fiber, given the fact that the budget was somewhat limited and the data transfer rates are very competitive. The catchment areas of the school do not require extensive lengths of cable to be implemented, thereofore the limitations of Ethernet did not pose a problem.