Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-25 Thread Greg Oliver
The above concern have been a major issue with telephone equipment (eg, central offices) and the telco's spend a significant amount of money burying very long rods in the ground and interconnectng them with the CO hardware using cables that are larger then 1/4 in diameter (don't

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-24 Thread Bob Goddard
On Thursday 23 Feb 2006 20:34, Colin Anderson wrote: It's stupid. Don't ever connect 2 different building with copper. Just wait until you get some kind of lightening hit or electrical fault, but make sure you are no where near it. Use fibre. Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the conduit

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On Thursday 23 February 2006 13:57, Bob Goddard wrote: It's stupid. Don't ever connect 2 different building with copper. Just wait until you get some kind of lightening hit or electrical fault, but make sure you are no where near it. Use fibre. That's a great rule of thumb, but the reality

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-24 Thread Rich Adamson
It's stupid. Don't ever connect 2 different building with copper. Just wait until you get some kind of lightening hit or electrical fault, but make sure you are no where near it. Use fibre. That's a great rule of thumb, but the reality isn't quite so black and white. A direct

[Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-23 Thread Colin Anderson
I have to provision several dozen * users to a seperate building on our campus in the same subnet. Ordinarily, I'd just run a gigabit cat6 cable to another switch if it doesn't violate the 100 metre rule, but this building is several hundred metres away from my backbone. My only option for cabling

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-23 Thread Bob Goddard
On Thursday 23 Feb 2006 17:30, Colin Anderson wrote: I have to provision several dozen * users to a seperate building on our campus in the same subnet. Ordinarily, I'd just run a gigabit cat6 cable to another switch if it doesn't violate the 100 metre rule, but this building is several hundred

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-23 Thread Rich Adamson
I have to provision several dozen * users to a seperate building on our campus in the same subnet. Ordinarily, I'd just run a gigabit cat6 cable to another switch if it doesn't violate the 100 metre rule, but this building is several hundred metres away from my backbone. My only option for

RE: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-23 Thread Colin Anderson
It's stupid. Don't ever connect 2 different building with copper. Just wait until you get some kind of lightening hit or electrical fault, but make sure you are no where near it. Use fibre. Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the conduit for the provisioning of the new building is unsuitable

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-23 Thread Matthew Crocker
Take a look at the Net2Net product which was purchased by Paradyne and then by Zhone (www.zhone.com). They make a unit that will bridge Ethernet over SDSL lines, 24 pairs will get you 50mbps through the link. It looks just like ethernet and VoIP will work fine over it. You can also

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-23 Thread Nicholas Kathmann
Colin Anderson wrote: I have to provision several dozen * users to a seperate building on our campus in the same subnet. Ordinarily, I'd just run a gigabit cat6 cable to another switch if it doesn't violate the 100 metre rule, but this building is several hundred metres away from my backbone. My

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-23 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Colin Anderson wrote: That aside, does anyone have opinions on my original question as to the suitability of bonded links for VoIP? It's not an issue. The bonded link acts just like any other link. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by

Re: [Asterisk-Users] OT: VoIP over bonded link

2006-02-23 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Colin Anderson a écrit : It's stupid. Don't ever connect 2 different building with copper. Just wait until you get some kind of lightening hit or electrical fault, but make sure you are no where near it. Use fibre. Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, the conduit for the provisioning of