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

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If you have a choice, separate cabling is better than trying to mess around
with a Vlan/QoS switch IMHO.  Remember the golden rule, KISS!

Do any of these 2 port phones do QoS where they would prioritize their own
traffic over traffic on their downstream port?  If so how well does it work
if your, for example, downloading bittorrent full blast and trying to talk
on the phone?
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Jones [mailto:jjones at danrj.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 2:25 PM
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] Small business traditional phones or IP Phone?


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.