did you bought some cisco shares not so long ago ? cisco is not the only one obviously who offer those possibilites.. Adding to the fact that this building is most likely already have a regular phone lines, and that Voip is really interesting for WAN communications and not LAN's. (yes voice mail blablabla, but a plain stupid old PBX still works very nicelly for a fractional cost.), and i am not even talking about bugs and stability of Voip architectures.
Technology is nice, when used properly in a proper environement. On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 10:51:00PM +1000, Richard Neal wrote: > Actually dont just look at the network to carry data but also voice, > CISCO now also allows you to integrate VoIP on the same network ie > voice,voice mail,SMS and their are CISCO digital telephones (there are > actually other companies making telephones for CISCO's VoIP network > now).If you think a network is just for data your living in the past, > there are heaps of large gov/companies swapping to integrated VoIP and > data solutions as we speak. > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Hey if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something * > * stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things! * > ******************************************************************** > > On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 10:20, Richard Hayes wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > I have been asked to investigate how to measure end usage for a large network > > around 1,000 ethernet ports. There are two versions: > > > > a) It is going into a new building and they want to prewire it (easy) > > > > b) Retrofit into an existing building > > > > My initial reaction was to run Cat 5 to each room and a managed switch per > > floor connected at Gigabit speeds into a router with redundant links but I > > would appreciated any suggestions. > > > > Has anyone had experience with large scale wireless? > > > > regards, > > > > Richard Hayes > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- -> Jean-Francois Dive --> [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no such thing as randomness. Only order of infinite complexity. - _The Holographic Universe_, Michael Talbot -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
