The cat 3 issue depends on your phone, if you went with VoIP phones, you would need to make sure that it could be set/forced to 10Mbps. I have only used Cisco phones, and, save the 7910 and 7902 (may a few others), they all are fully capable of doing 100Mbps because of their internal switch (you can colocate a comptuer with the phone); you'd need to tell them to go 10.
Cisco hardware would also be a huge investment for the hotel, most likely way more than what the average guest needs. Also, just FYI, the 7971does... gigabit ethernet!! That's pretty sweet. -Andy PS - Is the currently installed wiring cat3? On 4/16/05, Michael D Schelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good point. Here is another Suggestion. Why not use the existing analog > phones to their PBX and go out to channel banks for their phone line > trunks. Then go to Asterisk for the rest. They don't have 700 trunks. > This will save on equipment costs and you will get some of the benefits > of Asterisk. It's not the best solution but it will work. Also if you > do want to replace all you system with new phones then try my idea of > using the cat 3 cable. As far as the switches gos, remember it's not the > cable the determines the speed but the equipment connected to it. I > have yet to see a sip phone above 10 Mb. So you can disregard Mr. > Hamilton's statement about the switch. Yes you investment will be high, > but that is a business expense. I'm currently doing that cat 3 trick. > Don't worry about your customers connecting to your phone system. They > won't know it's IP. > > > John Novack wrote: > > > <snip> _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
