Fully understand the bind you're in. Small companies tend to wing it, and don't often understand the tradeoffs in the good/fast/cheap choice, or at least have a strong preference for the latter two, without caring what benefits the first two bring.
Kurt On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:19, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > Those are good questions, for which I will have to look for the answers. > In any event, the decision maker in question is not concerned with how hard > it is for me to manage the environment. In his mind, that is a theoretical > problem that does not offset his cost savings. > So, these well-intentioned logical exercises will prove fruitless. > Generally, I don't like complexity in networking, although I am willing to > take complexity when there is a significant benefit, such as with > server/application virtualization. OTOH, for a relatively small cost > (when you look at the size of our org: 60 employees, growing to 90 or 100 > this year), one can keep the benefits of VoIP and still avoid running it on > the same wire, minimizing other configuration issues. This is important to > me based on IT staffing constraints. > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Questions, for which I don't have answers: >> >> If putting the phone between the PC and the network, does that mask >> the MAC address for the PC? >> >> Does it kill your ability to do WoL? >> >> How else might it interfere with your network management? >> >> Kurt >> >> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:25, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I am not a huge fan of converged networks, although I will acknowledge >> > the >> > cost savings in many instances. >> > I have a situation where we were planning to keep the data traffic and >> > voice >> > traffic separate, and all of a sudden (11th hour) that changed. >> > *If* you were going to lobby against converging a network for 30-50 >> > people >> > on a floor that is being built out, what justification would you use? >> > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker >> > >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
