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>>>>> "John" == John Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The catch is that you need phones that can do VLANs: to avoid as
>> many cable runs as possible, you need to plug the desktop PCs
>> into the phones. Oops, back to needing the really expensive
>> phones.
John> What phones are you using? Granstream, Linksys, Polycom all
John> support both VLAN (802.1Q) and Layer 3 QOS.
I didn't know that grandstream did. Maybe I need newer firmware.
So that removes the price argument against VLAN.
John> Why spend more money retrofitting the CAT3 (which will still
John> have issues) when you could spend less upgrading the CAT5 and
John> solve not only the VoIP issues but their general LAN issues as
John> well?
John> What am I missing here?
The IT department is afraid of you since you know more than them. And
if the company is too small to have an IT *department*, just a part-time
IT guy, doubly so. You are challenging his job security...
The phone, however, is the CFO's problem, and the CFO can turn the
cat3 over to you trivially.
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