Separate cabling is also useful if the phone system is being deployed by a separate company - it avoids the 'your computer network is generating rubbish traffic' arguments. (been there before, sadly)
PaulH Andrew Latham wrote: > Alex > > I see a fair bit of separate physical networks because of different > management of phones vs IT. In the old businesses Facilities handles > the communications and IT is playing catchup all the time.... > > So in these businesses where the IT side is swapping switches on a > weekly basis it is safer to have a separate physical network. > > > Andrew > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Alex Balashov > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure they meant two logical networks. At least, I hope they did. >> >> David Gibbons wrote: >> >> >>> Two separate networks? Did I miss something? I feel like I'm taking crazy >>> pills! Two separate physical networks means twice the hassle, twice the >>> maintenance, twice the cost, twice the headache. Not to mention the fact >>> that the whole idea of VOIP is to simplify IT and focus on converging data >>> and voice networks. >>> >>> This is what VLANs and QOS do best. I dare say it's what they were designed >>> foe. I can't think of any reason that I would ever recommend two ports per >>> desk to support telephony -- ever. It's ludicrous to think that two ports >>> will be better than one if we're setting up our VLANs and QOS properly. A >>> phone takes very, very little bandwidth away from the desktop and a decent >>> one will support tagging its frames for the alternate voice VLAN. >>> >>> --snip-- >>> In almost all cases it is much better to have two seperate networks. >>> This may be impractical in some smaller installs, but in any office >>> setting we always do this. The only reason I can think of not to is to >>> eliminate the cost of the second cable. >>> --snip-- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> -- 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 >>> >> -- >> Alex Balashov >> Evariste Systems >> Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ >> Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 >> Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 >> Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- 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 >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ -- 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
