[Asterisk-biz] Talking of PoE ...

[Rob Pickering]

--On 13 July 2005 09:59 +0100 John Daragon <john at argv.co.uk> wrote:
> I guess the Netgear one costs more 'cause it does Layer 3 QoS. I'm
> not sure whether this customer is going to share switch ports
> between handsets and PCs yet, because they're still building the
> building...

Not sure what 'Layer 3 QoS' is (Diffserv maybe?), much less that I 
would trust it.

I always stick the VoIP phones on a separate tagged VLAN and use .1Q 
priority bits at L2 for QoS. Much more deterministic and supported 
well, even by switches with very small brains.

Ooops this is a bit OT for the commercial list.

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	Rob.
	http://www.ipcortex.co.uk/