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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
If you are using a switch, collisions a pretty much a non-issue, unless
you have enough traffic to saturate a port to the server. Latency is
also not helped any significant amount, since you still have a 100Mbit
link in the path between the phone and Asterisk.
In other words, for that application, it likely will not make any
difference at all. If it's cheap to do, and the server will also be
doing any file serving duties, then it would be a nice insurance policy
against a single user swamping the server's port.
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Sounds good to me. The server will be dedicated to Asterisk, so no worries about other applications (unless I move the config to a database which down the line could be very likely).
Regards,
-Ron
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