<div>Bob,</div>
<div>What are you using for a LAN switch?</div>
<div>Thanks!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 4, 2008 9:24 AM, Bob Pierce <<a href="mailto:pierceb@westmancom.com">pierceb@westmancom.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">We are using a Dell 2950 with 2 Dual core 2GHz CPU, 2GB Ram and a<br>Sangoma A104d-x quad T1/E1 card (which now seems to be called the A104DE<br>
on Sangoma's site). Using this system we are currently handling 82 users<br>quite easily. We have had at least 23 concurrent calls on a few<br>occasions with no problems. I'm pretty sure it could handle 48<br>concurrent calls as the load on this box averages around 0.11 and peaks<br>
to about 0.4<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Bob Pierce<br>Network Analyst<br>Westman Communications Group<br></font>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br>On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 09:04 -0500, John Williams wrote:<br>> Thanks for that wisdom, Bob. For this current job, we have the<br>> luxury of running a separate network for voice, and can put aside QOS<br>
> (for now).<br>><br>> Being completely paranoid, I want to buy equipment (switch &<br>> PC) proven to operate an * PBX for 50-90 users and 48 concurrent<br>> calls.<br>><br>> -- Dell is our preferred PC vendor. Can anyone recommend, based on<br>
> actual experience, a Dell PC model for *, and 48 concurrent calls?<br>> (The Dell recommended models on the Wiki are out of date)<br>><br>> -- 3COM is our preferred basic switch vendor. Can anyone recommend,<br>
> based on actual experience, a 3COM switch model for *, and 48<br>> concurrent calls?<br>><br>> Thanks in advance for aiding my considerable paranoia!<br>><br>><br>> On Feb 3, 2008 5:46 PM, bob murphy <<a href="mailto:springsource@gmail.com">springsource@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Once you start adding L3 to even L6 and 7 services the party<br>> gets smaller and more expensive. At the point you are<br>> building a network that requires QOS, Priority, Per port<br>
> VLAN's etc you may as well build with service provider class<br>> switching gear like Foundry and Cisco etc. It will help us<br>> all by eliminating complaints about "VOIP and Asterisk" being<br>
> not ready for prime deployment due to maturity issues when in<br>> reality, it works fine on a well designed and constructed<br>> network. Most of the time the Telephony system get's blamed<br>
> for what is actually a poorly designed network. "Low cost"<br>> and "Business grade" may not coexist yet. So just bite the<br>> bullet and use Foundry or Cisco. We have deployed a couple<br>
> systems with over 400 IP voice endpoints and things are lookin<br>> good because of the proper L3 and QOS functionality that was<br>> properly designed in to the final solution.<br>><br>
> Or, with cheap MAC switching you can just run seperate<br>> networks. I mean, why complicate things by converging voice<br>> and data. With L2 switching equipment so cheap. But you'll<br>
> have to run two cat6 drops everywhere. It's a trade off. We<br>> have done it both ways.<br>><br>> Bob<br>> Arreva Communications<br>><br>><br>> On 2/3/08, John Williams <<a href="mailto:jw.ip.pbx@gmail.com">jw.ip.pbx@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Deal List, Who are the low cost QOS LAN switch<br>> vendors with products supported by * for business<br>> grade voice service? Thanks<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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