For an office that is using VoIP phones to connect to Asterisk, is gigabit ethernet really necessary for the Asterisk box to connect to the switch? I know that I won't even approach the limits of 100 Mbps, but would gigabit help with latency / collisions when several calls are underway? The fact is, anything going outside the office will be over a data T1, so intuition tells me that 100 Mbps should be fine... The office will have 20 phones, with remote VoIP phones added to the mix later on.
TIA, -Ron
Ron,
For what it costs, it is usually worth it to put a gig card in your server (a good one). Gigabit cards have newer and much better buffering and pci bus support. They are also much better at offloading processing from the system's CPU. You need to make sure that you have a good one. Because a crappy Gigabit card is probably not much better than a crappy 100mb card...
I like Intel nics (both 100mb and 1000mb). Something supported by e1000 shouldn't be too expensive and usually will work pretty well with most all OS's.
my $0.02
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