On 01/15/2010 05:01 PM, David Backeberg wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:54 AM, randall<rand...@songshu.org> wrote: > >> does anybody know of another solution to this or is my conclusion above >> simply all the choice there is? >> > So let me get this straight. > > You're planning on buying multiple Gigabit, PoE switches,
no, only 1 would be enough, think i will get this one in the link for the phones seperately http://www.salland.eu/product/350730 > and you're > quibbling over the price yes, i like to quibble over price, i'm dutch ;) > The gigabit > PoE switches are not cheap, i noticed > at least if you're buying enterprise > switches that actually deliver real gigabit, with full cross-sectional > bandwidth. The cable isn't very much money, and if you double-wire > now, you're ready when you have twice as many employees in the same > space. > i already have 3 cat5e wires running to each workplace, at the moment 2 are occupied with respectively 1 for a desktop and 1 for the "old" phone > Next, you don't say what this office is like, but I'm going to let you > in on a little secret. Most people in an office rarely spike to a full > 100Mbit connection. Do some bandwidth monitoring on your network and > you'll discover that. we use a lot of email which is IMAP based, for normal text like this email it will not be a problem but we are send huge picture attachments, when using 100mbit it can get real sluggish at times especially when you are in a hurry to forward them, plus i like to have /home directories mounted on the server. a little extra never hurts. > A gigabit ethernet phone is a nice thing to > have, but it's more a marketing thing than an actual necessity. > i don't care for the phone to have gigabit connection, its about the desktops not losing gigabit connection > Anybody that can afford a gigabit ethernet switching phone and true > gigabit ethernet PoE backend can afford a second wire to every desk. > its not the wires at the desk i wanted to get rid off, i was hoping to use less in the server room, from the patch panel to the switch. > Please let me know the use case if you find people can't be happy with > a 100Mbit connection for the typical Windoze office environment. > windoze? people still use that? ;) we mostley have Xubuntu based desktops running here, not that it matters or is absolutely necessary to have, but its a terrible thing to loose if you are used to it, also i use the LAN here sometimes for cluster testing. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users