Your supervisor decides he wants to transition the office from a fiber connection to a satellite connection. The office relies on the connection for VoIP, email and cloud storage. You find that the prices for satellite connections are cheaper. Why would you advise against this change?
Encryption is not available over satellite connections this could be a compliance/security issue
The latency from the satellite connection would adversely impact VoIP
This would likely require re-wiring the whole network, outweighing any cost savings
You don't, saving money and no performance change is a great idea
Satellite connections often have notable delay/latency issues which would be unacceptable for VoIP and video conferences, they are also negatively impacted by weather. The hand-off for satellite is likely RJ-45 or something similar, you may need a new modem but re-wiring the entire network is an unlikely requirement. Satellite connections can be used with encryption.
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