Good morning. I can tell you that after some research on my end, I ended up going Cisco. I'm running Linksys SPA942's and wanted to not effect the LAN drops in the building, so I'm running the "PC into phone, phone into switch" scenario with 2 VLANs and everything is plugged into a Cisco Catalyst 3560-48PS (48port 10/100 PoE). I like the setup. I don't see any problems in my network. We have not noticed any problems with the LAN speeds (and we are heavy LAN users).
The reason I went Cisco versus Linksys or Dell or HP was that it was tough to find a switch that would run all the ports with PoE at their maximum load (15.4 watts or something?). I wanted to be able to plug in 48 phones and not worry an electrical fire in my LAN room :) Really, I should be running (2) 24 port switches for a bit of disaster recovery if one should go, but _that_ was just a bit too pricey at the time. Also, I was concerned about the quality of the power supply, physical construction, and the quality of the switching backbone. Don't forget that you'll be running the glut of your network traffic over this switching hardware. To recap, I weighed all of these factors: 1. Brand/Build Quality 2. Availability of replacement PSU's 3. Availability of replacement units on eBay 4. Support for all switch ports @ full PoE load 5. Fast switching 6. VLAN tagging/trunking support And I guess.. finally.. 7. Cost If you're going SMB/SoHo, I did like what I saw on the Linksys switches. That's my 2 cents worth.. -Marc Marc Carrafiello Vice President, Information Technology Datex > -----Original Message----- > From: TianLun Song [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [on-asterisk] question about network setup > > Hi you all, > > here is a quick question about the network setup for asterisk. > > what switches you provide for customers if they want to > connect their PCs to > the second port of the phone and then connect the first port > to the switch. > > do you recommend this solution to your customers? if so, what > switch you > recommend? i know CISCO switch can separate data and voice > traffic using > VLANs. however, the pricing is a big concern for customers. > > thank you > > -- > TianLun Song > CCVP, CCNP, M.Eng > Cell:1-647-868-2950 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
