Good to hear but we like cutting up walls and slinging cable in our filthy ceiling plenums. ;-)
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Bill Humphries <nt...@hedgedigger.com>wrote: > We manage to run switch to phone to desktop without any problems at all of > our clients. We've never run cable just for phones. YMMV, but we never > have problems. Of course that assumes you are using a well optimized codec > for voice. > > Bill > > > James Kerr wrote: > >> Yeah, if we go VOIP we will be running a new CAT6 infrastructure just for >> the phones and perform lots of testing before we cut over. >> >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Jonathan Bible <jtbi...@gmail.com<mailto: >> jtbi...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I am surprised no one has mentioned ShoreTel. It is supported on >> VMware 4.0. Just remember when you add VOIP to your network it >> will expose your latency and misconfigurations because missing 3 >> seconds of voice is critical and an email will go unnoticed. VOIP >> is like the canary in the mine. It dies first and gets all the >> blame. ShoreTel is designed from the IT prospective and is easy >> to manage. >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:48 PM, James Kerr <cluster...@gmail.com >> <mailto:cluster...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I've thought about hosted solutions also but we are currently >> locked into contracts for our PRI's. This will be an >> interesting venture that's for sure. >> >> James >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Stu Sjouwerman >> <s...@sunbelt-software.com >> <mailto:stus@sunbelt-software.**com<s...@sunbelt-software.com> >> >> >> >> wrote: >> >> James, >> >> >> I went through that whole exercise a year ago, and decided >> for VOIP, but running it >> >> In the Cloud as opposed to in-house. RingCentral gives >> you an enormous amount of >> >> features for about 20 bucks per person per month, >> unlimited phone minutes. If you >> >> absolutely want to run it in-house, a dedicated server >> with Asterisk would be a good >> >> idea. VOIP is sensitive to a bunch of things, you need to >> spec out the hardware >> >> correctly. >> >> >> Warm regards, >> >> >> Stu >> >> >> *From:* James Kerr [mailto:cluster...@gmail.com >> <mailto:cluster...@gmail.com>] >> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:57 AM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine >> >> >> >> We are looking at replacing our phone system. This has got >> me thinking about VIOP systems and being a sys admin who >> maintains our current phone system (for the most part) has >> got me thinking about phone system redundancy. I have a >> desire to run a voice-mail and PBX on virtual machines, if >> possible. I just don't know if such things exist and was >> wondering if any of you guys had any info about such >> systems. We have about 150 phones in two locations two >> PBXs and one central voice-mail/auto attendant. Venders >> I've spoke with so far just want to offer newer versions >> of what we already have. I want something more redundant >> and easier to bring up again in case of disaster. 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