How To: Building The Extreme Home Office

Selecting and installing the best products and technologies for the home office can be challenging. To help in that quest, Digital Connect Lab engineers set out to build the best–and most cost-effective–home office infrastructure. See what they came up with.

Many digital integrators today are building home offices. But, as with any sophisticated undertaking, they face many obstacles along the way to creating the ultimate solution. First off, what defines the ultimate office? Should integrators aim for getting the biggest bang for the buck or leverage the latest technology? What about the difficulty of weighing functionality against cost? As a way to address these issues, Digital ConnectLab engineers set out on our own to build the best–and most cost-effective–home office infrastructure.

We started out with a couple of prerequisites: a reliable broadband connection and a strong network backbone. For our ultimate home office, we took the approach of building a solution suitable for a home-based professional, with the typical needs of Internet access, customer management, accounting, intrahouse access and graphical processing needs. For our example, let’s say this system would be for an architect or building engineer.

By Frank J. Ohlhorst
Digital Connect

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