Why? You might as well just buy a new PBX or upgrade the existing one and run 
it on the existing infrastructure if you're going to do that. Doesn't get you 
any cost savings...

Thanks,
Brian Desmond
[email protected]

c – 312.731.3132

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 3:16 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Managed Switches...
> 
> +1 on the HP switches.
> 
> Further recommendation (which I know won't fly, but I'll make it
> anyway): Pull the cable needed to keep VoIP separate from everything else,
> and get VoIP its own infrastructure.
> 
> Kurt
> 
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:05, Reimer, Mark <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> >
> >
> > I need some opinions.
> >
> >
> >
> > Up until now (don’t laugh), we have been using unmanaged switches, and
> > it’s been working. But we hope to implement a VOIP system (probably
> > based on Asterix software), and there are other factors (VLAN’s for
> > one) that will require us to install managed switches.
> >
> >
> >
> > I know Cisco is the cream of the crop, and the most expensive. I’ve
> > heard that HP is quite good as well.
> >
> >
> >
> > So, without starting too many flame wars, can people make a
> > recommendation, (or a “unrecommendation”)?
> >
> >
> >
> > This would be for one physical location, looking at 150-200 drops
> > scattered throughout campus (we are an educational institution). We
> > are planning to use the current Ethernet wiring (CAT 5 or better in
> > all places), with the phone and computer using the same physical wire.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Reimer,  A+, MCSA
> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> 
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