An effective work environment encourages collaboration. That often means tearing down office walls to create open workspaces. With their quiet, fan-less design, the switches create many possibilities for designing workspaces. They can reside nearly anywhere outside your wiring closet. Install them in carpeted areas such as offices, conference rooms, classrooms, & retail stores for quick, flexible connections. Rearrange rooms & floors without changing your cabling infrastructure. Consolidate cabling for big savings. Rather than running multiple Ethernet cables from endpoints like IP phones & Wi-Fi access points to a wiring closet, you just connect devices over a few feet of cabling to a nearby 3560-CX switch. Then connect the compact switch to the wiring closet with a single Ethernet or fiber cable. Using this setup, a 200-room hotel using compact switches in guest rooms can eliminate up to 30 kilometers of cables.