On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 11:42 -0400, Philip Mullis wrote: > Agreed the price per port is high (roughly 120per port)
This assumes you use every port of the device. Try and find a economic solution for say 30 phones? Two 24 port Citels at $3200 US. is $215 (US) per phone and you just end up with a crippled non-sip compliant phone on every desk and a another piece of equipment to manage. Unlike SIP phones, this also doesn't scale nicely since you have to buy the converters in large blocks instead of just one phone at a time. Avoiding this kind of thing is exactly what switching to VoIP is all about. > but the time and > cost of re-cabling should always be factored against it :). This goes back to the reusing CAT3 vs. using CAT5 discussion. I simply don't see how reusing legacy equipment or cabling makes economic sense in any situation where you have a CAT5 drop available. For very little up-front pain you get enormous long term gain if you dump all the legacy stuff. John
