On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yikes. I understand the words and most of the concepts but have little > practical knowledge to share. > > My experience on a small-scale SOHO network is that VOIP is a pretty > trivial overhead to the network. As Kevin pointed out, you want to be > able to prioritize traffic, as latency and quick response will be much > more important to callers (we all take it for granted that two people > can carry on a conversation on the phone and interrupt each other. A > one-second delay makes that enormously aggravating, and 2 or 3 nearly > useless.) > > As for bandwidth, here's a document with some insight: > > > http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-quality/7934-bwidth-consume.html > > depending on your choice of compression schemes and codecs, 12 > simultaneous conversations would run 240 - 1000 Kbps. That's Kilo, > not mega or Giga, so it's pretty unlikely to slow down your database > queries. > > -------------------- > > We use Cisco 7945 handsets. We have 200+ users of these phones. Still a few plants have not been rolled over into VOIP yet. Our ops guy over phones is at another plant today otherwise I'd ask him why they chose what they did. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAJidMYL5NGRtT06AXAPnc0bCjnSn5UHEu3U+J=_qaetxt+1...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
