On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On October 29, 2008 10:19:36 am Bill Michaelson wrote: >> I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating voice >> and data networks is in the Real World. >> >> What are the factors that typically lead to such a decision? >> DIscussions of pros and cons are most welcome by me. >> >> Experiences, anybody? > > I'm a pragmatist; most offices have one network jack at each station; I run > voice and data on the same physical wire, but if at all possible I try to > split things off using smarter switches and VLANs. > > -A. > > >
For me, it has come down to the customer's decision and budget. I usually recommend two drops per station (or more). I had a large pharmaceutical company have me (my cable crew) run four drops to each work station, rip out all their old 3com switches and replace them with Cisco switches and new routers, replace all the workstations with new Dell's with three or five year gold same day onsite support, tear out their Definity G3 and replace it with a 3Com NBX system, and replace all of their servers with new IBM servers and migrate everything over..... Anyways, two of the four drops were on the phone side of the network and the other two were on the regular data side. It was a long process, a huge challenge, a total success and they were completely happy at the end, but as everyone knows pharm companies have VERY deep pockets. My budget was a million or so and I came in well under. -- Thanks, Steve Totaro +18887771888 (Toll Free) +12409381212 (Cell) +12024369784 (Skype) _______________________________________________ -- 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
