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Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "bob murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:49:25 To:"Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion"<asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3COM Yes I concur that the Dell switches are a good functional choice as well. And priced right. On 2/4/08, Bob Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: We are using Dell PowerConnect 3448P for voice&data switches with qos and separate vlans for data and voice. Bob On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 09:55 -0500, John Williams wrote: > Bob, > What are you using for a LAN switch? > Thanks! > > > On Feb 4, 2008 9:24 AM, Bob Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > wrote: > We are using a Dell 2950 with 2 Dual core 2GHz CPU, 2GB Ram > and a > Sangoma A104d-x quad T1/E1 card (which now seems to be called > the A104DE > on Sangoma's site). Using this system we are currently > handling 82 users > quite easily. We have had at least 23 concurrent calls on a > few > occasions with no problems. I'm pretty sure it could handle 48 > concurrent calls as the load on this box averages around 0.11 > and peaks > to about 0.4 > > -- > Bob Pierce > Network Analyst > Westman Communications Group > > > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 09:04 -0500, John Williams wrote: > > Thanks for that wisdom, Bob. For this current job, we have > the > > luxury of running a separate network for voice, and can put > aside QOS > > (for now). > > > > Being completely paranoid, I want to buy equipment (switch > & > > PC) proven to operate an * PBX for 50-90 users and 48 > concurrent > > calls. > > > > -- Dell is our preferred PC vendor. Can anyone recommend, > based on > > actual experience, a Dell PC model for *, and 48 concurrent > calls? > > (The Dell recommended models on the Wiki are out of date) > > > > -- 3COM is our preferred basic switch vendor. Can anyone > recommend, > > based on actual experience, a 3COM switch model for *, and > 48 > > concurrent calls? > > > > Thanks in advance for aiding my considerable paranoia! > > > > > > On Feb 3, 2008 5:46 PM, bob murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Once you start adding L3 to even L6 and 7 services > the party > > gets smaller and more expensive. At the point you > are > > building a network that requires QOS, Priority, Per > port > > VLAN's etc you may as well build with service > provider class > > switching gear like Foundry and Cisco etc. It will > help us > > all by eliminating complaints about "VOIP and > Asterisk" being > > not ready for prime deployment due to maturity > issues when in > > reality, it works fine on a well designed and > constructed > > network. Most of the time the Telephony system > get's blamed > > for what is actually a poorly designed network. > "Low cost" > > and "Business grade" may not coexist yet. So just > bite the > > bullet and use Foundry or Cisco. We have deployed a > couple > > systems with over 400 IP voice endpoints and things > are lookin > > good because of the proper L3 and QOS functionality > that was > > properly designed in to the final solution. > > > > Or, with cheap MAC switching you can just run > seperate > > networks. I mean, why complicate things by > converging voice > > and data. With L2 switching equipment so cheap. > But you'll > > have to run two cat6 drops everywhere. It's a trade > off. We > > have done it both ways. > > > > Bob > > Arreva Communications > > > > > > On 2/3/08, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > Deal List, Who are the low cost QOS LAN > switch > > vendors with products supported by * for > business > > grade voice service? 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