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>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Van Meggelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jim> Thing is, a lot of smallers companies are running a pretty
Jim> messy, hacked-together network, which it would not be safe to
Jim> plug VoIP into. The switching equipment often consists of
Well, "safe" might be the wrong statement.
You won't get performance.
Jim> whatever was cheapest. In these environments it ususally makes
Jim> sense from both a cost and quality perspective to deploy the
Jim> voice network on a completely separate LAN. The challenge,
Jim> obviously, is in the fact that each workstation will then
Jim> require two cable runs, which most small businesses are not
Jim> going to want to pay for, hence the interest in re-using the
Jim> cat3 (which has 100x the bandwidth any VoIP phone will ever
Jim> need). Still, your point is valid in an environment where the
Jim> network is managed properly.
The CISCO phones nicely do CISCO CDP and will configure themselves to
a seperate VLAN. That's nice for keeping the spaghetti LAN away, yet
keeping the same wiring. Requires CISCO gear at each end, though.
Honestly: fixing the spaghetti LAN seems like the right choice to me.
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