On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 19:29 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: > >>>>> "John" == John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> Well even if you use the existing phone wiring you are still > John> buying new switching gear so wouldn't it make sense to put the > John> new switching gear on the data network and run the phones over > John> the LAN? > > The LAN is too busy with windows viruses, windows broadcasts, and > other windows junk.
Again, a new switch would support VLAN or QOS tagging which would address that issue. One of the major selling features of VoIP is convergence. If you are running parallel networks you are giving up one of the major selling points. Additionally, I would suspect that if you are reusing legacy cat3 your maintenance of the parallel network will be increased. So, by reusing cat3, instead of reducing your network maintenance by a theoretical 1/2, you are probably more than doubling it. John
