Here are some resources that might help: - http://www.focus.com/research/voip/buyers-guide-small-business-essentials-voip/ - http://www.focus.com/research/voip/comparison-guide-smb-phone-systems/ - http://www.focus.com/topic/voip/?f=r
*ASB *(Professional Bio <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market... * On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, so far thank you for your replies. Richard, to answer your > question about telephony panels: > > Here in our HQ buildings cat5 is used like any other data cable and plugged > into ports on a telephone rack. I can dismantle those racks, put up another > APC rack and use it for data racks. But, at some of our sites, the cables > are not terminated like a data cable, and those cables are spliced directly > into the phone racks. Those would have to be cut and terminated. > > Switches here at HQ are POE. Switches at field sites are not, so I'd need > to upgrade those or plug in the phones. It may come down to cost. The > switches are about 4-6 years old but run well and I've never had a failure > (3COM 5500 series, now HP 5500 series). > > Tom > > >>> <[email protected]> 5/2/2011 10:05 AM >>> > > Tell us about those "phone patch panels"... Does this mean your current > voice drops (at the desks) are RJ-45 (not RJ-11)? Do these "phone patch > panels" also consist of RJ-45 jacks (rather than to a punch-down block)? > Finally, are the "phone patch panels", if they have RJ-45 jacks, close > enough to reach your network switch? If this is the case, (RJ-45 to RJ-45, > and the patch panel can reach the network switch), then your only limitation > is availability of switch ports. You will still need to sub-net into > separate voice and data sub-nets, but the phones and the PCs can have > separate connections to the switch. This would get around the throttling of > Gbps connections to 100 Mbps described above. > -- > > richard > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
