[asterisk-biz] Small business traditional phones or IP Phone?

[Jerry Jones]

On Feb 5, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Warren (mailing lists) wrote:

> Pierre Marceau wrote:
>> 4 - Using IP phones means running new ethernet wires to the phone  
>> locations (but thats all part of the fun!) on the other hand some  
>> phones have 2 ethernet ports, I guess they are '2 port ethernet  
>> hubs' so plug the phone into the wall and the existing computer  
>> into the phone, keep in mind the old ethernet rule "no two devices  
>> should be more than 5 switches apart". I don't like the idea of  
>> these 2 port phones and prefer the idea of running cable.

Uh - that old rule was for hubs/repeaters not for switches.

>
> Another thing to think about that is not often mentioned...
>
> On a 2-port phone both of the ports are 10-BaseT, so if you move a  
> lot of data between your PC and a server, or you are a torrent  
> addict, or anything else that causes large amounts of data to be  
> moved, you have now slowed yourself down significantly.  Also, if  
> you try one of these large data moves during a call, you will  
> degrade the call because the PC will be eating up all of the  
> bandwidth.

The 2 port switches in all my phones are 100BaseT. some C are even  
1000BaseT

Also use vlan to seperate voice and data and configure your core  
switch and router appropriately and it does work, though I do still  
prefer to have a seperate cable plant for voice and data.