I am in the shopping mood to acquire an IP switch for my astlinux system. I plan to use 1. Sipura 2000, 2. Sipura 3000, 3. sunrockt's gizmo, 4. and maybe another sipura if I win an eBay bid.
That will enable me to wire up to 5-7 phone extensions into my asterisk. I will also be using astlinux box to be my router etc for home lan system. Of 16 ports I may wire up 11-13 ports from the get go between the ATAs and the computers on the LAN. I also might want to run a p2p downloader/uploader server, (hence the QOS needs to keep VoIP to near perfect sounds). I have checked into the Netgear FS116 and FS116PNA as possibilites (16 port w & w/o POE). Then I was looking at the Netgear FSM7352PSNA (48 port with POE). This last one mentions supports QOS! Since asterisk uses QOS for prioritization of packets, do I need to be sure I have a switch that lists support of QOS also ? This latter switch is a Level 3 managed switch and the prior are unmanaged switches. I don't really need all those 48 ports but the feature set got me wondering just what IS supposed to be important to me. Which attributes for a switch for astlinux should I pay attention to? 1. Managed or unmanaged 2. Level 3 or "plain" 3. One that claims support to QOS or makes no mention of support of QOS ? 4. Other attributes to be concerned over ? Since I am buying for future 5-9 years, I am considering havving at least some of the ports to support POE(power over ethernet) in anticipation of goodies in future might need this feature. Rich _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
