Ditto here on the switches. Various combinations of HP switches, managed and unmanaged. Can't say enough good about them. Will be buying more when funding permits. I've got all small environment schools though so I'm not exactly doing anything particularly taxing.
Jon Lewis From: Tom Strader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GB switches HP switches for the most part here. All are good, no problems. All HP servers here, one Dell, no problems with either other than one hard drive failed recently after 4 years. ________________________________ From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: GB switches I love HP servers. Freaking love em. Ive had my ups and downs with their switches, but something tells me I got a bad batch or something. I bought 4. One was DOA and two failed within a month. Then everything was great after that. From: Steve Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:04 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: GB switches 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> ~ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3035 (20080417) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3035 (20080417) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
