Got Cables? (Part 1)
Here’s a situation that happens all too often these days…
Your company has spent the last few weeks or months looking for new office space and has finally found the perfect location. The office is setup just how you want, with a little room to grow, and you (or your real estate broker) negotiated a good lease and maybe even got the landlord to install new carpet and paint. The office already has phone and internet jacks located around the office, so except for moving in, you don’t have too many upfront expenses.
But wait…
When you go to use those existing telephone and network jacks…they don’t work. You try one after another until you’ve tried every jack in your office, and none of them work. You finally accept the fact that you’re going to have to call your cabling or IT company to “activate” those jacks, and accept that they will bill you for a few hours labor to do so.
But wait…
When you’re cabling or IT company can’t find the “other end” of the cable that attaches to those existing jacks, they decide to take off that existing faceplate, and what do they find? Often time there are no cables connected to the jacks, or if there are, they are cut somewhere up in the ceiling and can not be used.
Now what? What does this mean?
It means that while you were excited about the new carpet and paint, you forgot to do your “due diligence” and make sure those existing jacks in the wall were connected and usable. It means that the great deal you got on the lease of your great new office is going to cost you anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars or more to get the cables installed where you need them, depending on the size of the office and the number of cables.
Why aren’t the cables there?
Check back for Part 2 to read remainder of this story.
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