Moving to Gigabit Ethernet

[Kurt Wolf]

I have a cable installation with Cat5e.  Switches are 3Com 3870 and 3Com 
7700 for core switching.  Gig works great.

Craig White wrote:

>Have a client with approximately 45 workstations.
>
>Office is wired for Cat 5
>
>Links such as http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2000/1016tech.html
>suggest that it may be possible to run Gigabit ethernet on the existing
>wiring (perhaps I need to rewire the ends with Cat 5e or Cat 6
>connectors).
>
>Has anyone done this type of thing with success?
>
>What type/brand/model switches did you use?
>
>Anything I should be considering?
>
>Craig
>
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