[asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3COM

[John Williams]

Thanks for that wisdom, Bob.   For this current job, we have the luxury of
running a separate network for voice, and can put aside QOS (for now).

Being completely paranoid,  I want to buy equipment (switch & PC) proven to
operate an *  PBX for 50-90 users and 48 concurrent calls.

--  Dell is our preferred PC vendor.  Can anyone recommend, based on actual
experience, a Dell PC model for *, and 48 concurrent calls?  (The Dell
recommended models on the Wiki are out of date)

--  3COM is our preferred basic switch vendor.  Can anyone recommend, based
on actual experience, a 3COM switch model for *, and 48 concurrent calls?

Thanks in advance for aiding my considerable paranoia!


On Feb 3, 2008 5:46 PM, bob murphy <springsource at gmail.com> wrote:

> Once you start adding L3 to even L6 and 7 services the party gets smaller
> and more expensive.  At the point you are building a network that requires
> QOS, Priority, Per port VLAN's etc you may as well build with service
> provider class switching gear like Foundry and Cisco etc.  It will help us
> all by eliminating complaints about "VOIP and Asterisk" being not ready for
> prime deployment due to maturity issues when in reality, it works fine on
> a well designed and constructed network.  Most of the time the Telephony
> system get's blamed for what is actually a poorly designed network.  "Low
> cost" and "Business grade" may not coexist yet.  So just bite the bullet and
> use Foundry or Cisco.  We have deployed a couple systems with over 400 IP
> voice endpoints and things are lookin good because of the proper L3 and QOS
> functionality that was properly designed in to the final solution.
>
> Or, with cheap MAC switching you can just run seperate networks.  I mean,
> why complicate things by converging voice and data.  With L2 switching
> equipment so cheap.  But you'll have to run two cat6 drops everywhere.  It's
> a trade off.  We have done it both ways.
>
> Bob
> Arreva Communications
>
>
>  On 2/3/08, John Williams <jw.ip.pbx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Deal List,  Who are the low cost QOS LAN switch vendors with products
> > supported by * for business grade voice service?  Thanks
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