Running large amount of Lan cables

Idbatterim

Hey lads, ok so have 25 rooms over 10,000 sq foot where Lan cables need to be run, many will be for phone and wifi in few places and tv. Instead of running masses of cables major distances. Can I not just run a say cat 7 cable from cabinet to router on each floor and use cat 6 or 7 from there... also there will be a few dome cameras etc, but surely all of these devices are using a fraction of a percent of what the cable can actually transmit?

One guy in the local pc shop said it would throttle it, but throttle what with that kind of speeds?

Also if I want speakers in ceiling, do many have a Lan port now (are there advantages and disadvantages to them) or should I also run normal speaker cable. How about fibre optic cable?

Cat7 & Cat7A - Cat7 cable will support 10 Gigabit Ethernet with plenty of margin to spare. Cat7 has pair-sharing capability, making it possible to use one cable to power several different devices at the same time utilizing each pair as needed. For the best and most versatile infrastructure Cat7 provides the solution.

just read that...

KeRbDoG

Ignore using copper cable for 10gbe and use fiber, unless you have found a cheap solution for 10GBASE-T(10gbe over copper/CAT6a/CAT7)?

rugrat69

Cat6a will cover you for the next few years. Fibre is no that viable due to cost of terminations at each outlet and Patch panel also most nic cards are copper based. hi

KeRbDoG

For the handful of cabinet to router/switch on each floor runs the OP suggests they have, you could get pre-terminated patch runs to remove the need to terminate.
Ignoring fiber and if your network device setup allowed, you could run multiple CAT5e/CAT6 cables for those runs and setup trunking together those X cables together for a faster cab<->router/switch connection. Many mid range switches will do it, manual example from HP.