Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hales
Separate cabling is also useful if the phone system is being deployed by a separate company - it avoids the 'your computer network is generating rubbish traffic' arguments. (been there before, sadly) PaulH Andrew Latham wrote: > Alex > > I see a fair bit of separate physical networks because of

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-30 Thread Andrew Latham
Alex I see a fair bit of separate physical networks because of different management of phones vs IT. In the old businesses Facilities handles the communications and IT is playing catchup all the time So in these businesses where the IT side is swapping switches on a weekly basis it is safer

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry Jones
> > I can think of two valid reasons to physically segregate the networks: > > 1) Insurance. I.e., to eliminate the possibility that otherwise > properly configured QoS mechanisms become broken, either by > accident, incompetence, or badly-designed or rogue software or > hardware - or are oth

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry Jones
On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:30 PM, David Gibbons wrote: > Fair enough, I guess I was concentrating on this line in Jerry's > message :) >> The only reason I can think of not to is to eliminate the cost of >> the second cable. > > I believe you're mistaken about the QOS though. >> QoS is not requir

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Michaelson
Alex Balashov wrote: Send asterisk-users mailing list submissions to asterisk-users@lists.digium.com I'm pretty sure they meant two logical networks. At least, I hope they did. Unfortunately, I was indeed referring to two physical networks. Cabling, switches, everything, all the way

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread David Gibbons
Fair enough, I guess I was concentrating on this line in Jerry's message :) > The only reason I can think of not to is to eliminate the cost of the second > cable. I believe you're mistaken about the QOS though. > QoS is not required on lightly loaded links and will do nothing for you on > over

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Daniel Hazelbaker
On Oct 29, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Darrick Hartman wrote: > David Gibbons wrote: >> Two separate networks? Did I miss something? I feel like I'm taking >> crazy pills! Two separate physical networks means twice the hassle, >> twice the maintenance, twice the cost, twice the headache. Not to >> mention

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Drew Gibson
Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Drew Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Worst part is the few Cisco phones we have insist on "searching for >> VLAN" (which doesn't exist) for 5 minutes on startup. Hopefully they >> >> > > Drew, > > Disable CDP on the pho

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Drew Gibson
David Gibbons wrote: > Two separate networks? Did I miss something? I feel like I'm taking crazy > pills! Two separate physical networks means twice the hassle, twice the > maintenance, twice the cost, twice the headache. Not to mention the fact that > the whole idea of VOIP is to simplify IT an

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Darrick Hartman
David Gibbons wrote: > Two separate networks? Did I miss something? I feel like I'm taking > crazy pills! Two separate physical networks means twice the hassle, > twice the maintenance, twice the cost, twice the headache. Not to > mention the fact that the whole idea of VOIP is to simplify IT and >

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:50:31 -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote > On Wednesday 29 October 2008 10:22:43 David Gibbons wrote: > > A phone takes very, very little bandwidth away from the desktop and a decent > > one will support tagging its frames for the alternate voice VLAN. > > > > --snip-- > > In almos

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Alex Balashov
Daniel Hazelbaker wrote: > I would agree with this as long as you have a decent LAN. We have > about 60 computer workstations and 85 phones on our network. The > entire thing is Gigabit. Each phone (with a few exceptions that we > are running new cable to rectify) has a dedicated ethernet

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 10:22:43 David Gibbons wrote: > A phone takes very, very little bandwidth away from the desktop and a decent > one will support tagging its frames for the alternate voice VLAN. > > --snip-- > In almost all cases it is much better to have two seperate networks. > This ma

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Daniel Hazelbaker
On Oct 29, 2008, at 8:21 AM, Alex Balashov wrote: > In my experience most of the serious QoS issues arise in relation to > the > Internet pipe (if the provider is IP, and outside the network), not > the > LAN. Of course, LANs can be heavily contended, but are not in most > organisations, esp

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Alex Balashov
I'm pretty sure they meant two logical networks. At least, I hope they did. David Gibbons wrote: > Two separate networks? Did I miss something? I feel like I'm taking crazy > pills! Two separate physical networks means twice the hassle, twice the > maintenance, twice the cost, twice the headac

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread David Gibbons
Two separate networks? Did I miss something? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! Two separate physical networks means twice the hassle, twice the maintenance, twice the cost, twice the headache. Not to mention the fact that the whole idea of VOIP is to simplify IT and focus on converging data an

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Alex Balashov
In my experience most of the serious QoS issues arise in relation to the Internet pipe (if the provider is IP, and outside the network), not the LAN. Of course, LANs can be heavily contended, but are not in most organisations, especially as gigabit cores are getting increasingly common even in

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Bill Michaelson wrote: > I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating voice and > data networks is in the Real World. > > What are the factors that typically lead to such a decision? DIscussions of > pros and cons are most welcome by me. Customer budg

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Kristian Kielhofner
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Drew Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Michaelson wrote: >> I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating >> voice and data networks is in the Real World. >> >> What are the factors that typically lead to such a decision? >> DIscussions

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Steve Totaro
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On October 29, 2008 10:19:36 am Bill Michaelson wrote: >> I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating voice >> and data networks is in the Real World. >> >> What are the factors that typic

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Drew Gibson
Bill Michaelson wrote: > I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating > voice and data networks is in the Real World. > > What are the factors that typically lead to such a decision? > DIscussions of pros and cons are most welcome by me. > > Experiences, anybody? > We chos

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Jerry Jones
On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Bill Michaelson wrote: > I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating > voice and data networks is in the Real World. > > What are the factors that typically lead to such a decision? > DIscussions of pros and cons are most welcome by me. > >

Re: [asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)
On October 29, 2008 10:19:36 am Bill Michaelson wrote: > I'm wondering how prevalent the practice of physically segregating voice > and data networks is in the Real World. > > What are the factors that typically lead to such a decision? > DIscussions of pros and cons are most welcome by me. > > Exp

[asterisk-users] network design philosophy and practice

2008-10-29 Thread Bill Michaelson
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