We manage to run switch to phone to desktop without any problems at all
of our clients. We've never run cable just for phones. YMMV, but we
never have problems. Of course that assumes you are using a well
optimized codec for voice.
Bill
James Kerr wrote:
Yeah, if we go VOIP we will be running a new CAT6 infrastructure just
for the phones and perform lots of testing before we cut over.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Jonathan Bible <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I am surprised no one has mentioned ShoreTel. It is supported on
VMware 4.0. Just remember when you add VOIP to your network it
will expose your latency and misconfigurations because missing 3
seconds of voice is critical and an email will go unnoticed. VOIP
is like the canary in the mine. It dies first and gets all the
blame. ShoreTel is designed from the IT prospective and is easy
to manage.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:48 PM, James Kerr <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I've thought about hosted solutions also but we are currently
locked into contracts for our PRI's. This will be an
interesting venture that's for sure.
James
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Stu Sjouwerman
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
James,
I went through that whole exercise a year ago, and decided
for VOIP, but running it
In the Cloud as opposed to in-house. RingCentral gives
you an enormous amount of
features for about 20 bucks per person per month,
unlimited phone minutes. If you
absolutely want to run it in-house, a dedicated server
with Asterisk would be a good
idea. VOIP is sensitive to a bunch of things, you need to
spec out the hardware
correctly.
Warm regards,
Stu
*From:* James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>]
*Sent:* Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:57 AM
*To:* NT System Admin Issues
*Subject:* OT - Phone System In A Virtual Machine
We are looking at replacing our phone system. This has got
me thinking about VIOP systems and being a sys admin who
maintains our current phone system (for the most part) has
got me thinking about phone system redundancy. I have a
desire to run a voice-mail and PBX on virtual machines, if
possible. I just don't know if such things exist and was
wondering if any of you guys had any info about such
systems. We have about 150 phones in two locations two
PBXs and one central voice-mail/auto attendant. Venders
I've spoke with so far just want to offer newer versions
of what we already have. I want something more redundant
and easier to bring up again in case of disaster. Thanks
for any replies.
James
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