I love my HP switches...and my servers too...and my new HP pen...wish I had a nice HP tshirt.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Martin Blackstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And don't forget that HP switches have a lifetime warranty / support. > Anytime if one goes tits up, they will replace it. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:47 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: GB switches > > While I don't agree with the choice of D-Link switches - they're cheap > for a reason and you get what you pay for; the same goes for Linksys and > Netgear - yes I am a snob when it comes to these things - I completely > agree with the sentiment of sticking with 100Mbit from a bandwidth point > of view. > > Every single VoIP codec I've seen is rated in terms of *kilobit* per > second - 56kilobit, 64kilobit, etc. Your VoIP server could have a > 100Mbit uplink to your network and *never* max it out, even with 100 > VoIP phones. > > Will you need new switches? That is very likely. VoIP may not use a lot > of bandwidth, but it *does* have a high PPS (packet per second) rate > when compared to traditional LAN applications, and will overwhelm older > switches. > > WRT switches: The top 3 switch vendors in the US are Cisco, HP and 3com > for very good reasons. Cisco is *very* good, but new equipment is > obscenely expensive to the point where you can buy an HP and a cold > spare for the price of 1 Cisco. > > WJH wrote: > > We use polycom phones with asterisk systems for several clients. You > > did not mention whether you were looking at POE switches or not. POE > > makes the phone roll out much easier. > > > > For what it's worth, we rarely use a cisco switch and have yet felt > > the need to use it for VoIP. We go cheap and use d-link 10/100 POE > > switches. We only support small and medium size business. The most > > complex switch configs we uaually need are setting up three or four > > vlans. We generally only have gigabit (and typically cicso) switches > > for server connections in the rack and high traffic users like video > > editors. > > > > The codecs we use for voice seem perfectly capable of traveling over > > a 100mb connection. > > > > At the desk, we plug the phone to the wall jack and plug the > > PC/laptop to the Polycom. > > -- > > Phil Brutsche > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
