And don't forget that HP switches have a lifetime warranty / support. Anytime if one goes tits up, they will replace it.
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GB switches While I don't agree with the choice of D-Link switches - they're cheap for a reason and you get what you pay for; the same goes for Linksys and Netgear - yes I am a snob when it comes to these things - I completely agree with the sentiment of sticking with 100Mbit from a bandwidth point of view. Every single VoIP codec I've seen is rated in terms of *kilobit* per second - 56kilobit, 64kilobit, etc. Your VoIP server could have a 100Mbit uplink to your network and *never* max it out, even with 100 VoIP phones. Will you need new switches? That is very likely. VoIP may not use a lot of bandwidth, but it *does* have a high PPS (packet per second) rate when compared to traditional LAN applications, and will overwhelm older switches. WRT switches: The top 3 switch vendors in the US are Cisco, HP and 3com for very good reasons. Cisco is *very* good, but new equipment is obscenely expensive to the point where you can buy an HP and a cold spare for the price of 1 Cisco. WJH wrote: > We use polycom phones with asterisk systems for several clients. You > did not mention whether you were looking at POE switches or not. POE > makes the phone roll out much easier. > > For what it's worth, we rarely use a cisco switch and have yet felt > the need to use it for VoIP. We go cheap and use d-link 10/100 POE > switches. We only support small and medium size business. The most > complex switch configs we uaually need are setting up three or four > vlans. We generally only have gigabit (and typically cicso) switches > for server connections in the rack and high traffic users like video > editors. > > The codecs we use for voice seem perfectly capable of traveling over > a 100mb connection. > > At the desk, we plug the phone to the wall jack and plug the > PC/laptop to the Polycom. -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
