And teleworking is one capability that it affords, but there are may others. And they got the ultimate need right in-home connectivity is considered a necessity rather than a luxury by many. That’s what soothsayers predicted more than 20 years ago. So building a home network, with a Category 5e connection in multiple rooms of the home, would equip the residence for the ability to work from the home. Eventually, telecom providers would deliver more than Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) speeds to residences. The primary reason for this anticipated need was because people would be working from home, and in order to approach the type of connectivity they’d have in a commercial office building, they’d need a wired connection of 10 or 100 Mbits/sec-and maybe someday even a gigabit. In the late 1990s, many future-gazers predicted that networking and network connectivity in residences would become increasingly important in the ensuing years. I thought about that specifically because I was preparing material for this article on cabling in multi-dwelling units. As I compiled several of those prognostications late last year, I kept in mind that sometimes the prediction ultimately is accurate, even if the technological path to the predicted outcome is not accurately forecast. Did you read all the predictions about how technology is going to change the way we live in work in 2020 and beyond? You might have read some on our website,, or countless other media outlets as we wound our way from 2019 to 2020.

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