[Asterisk-Users] Packeteer ? Edgemark ? How to not re-cable ?

[Tom Rymes]

On Dec 6, 2005, at 3:11 PM, A_ Navone wrote:

> I have customer wtih 30 stations in cubicles but they only
> have 1 rj45 per cubicle and that is for lan and internet.
> I would prefer the voip to be on separate net connection for  
> quality purposes
> but customer does not want to recable.  How to avoid voice quality  
> problems ?
> I have read about devices like Edgemark or Packeteer that
> can prioritize voip udp.  Is that true ?  Do they work ?
> Thx in Advance

Well, you have a number of choices:

1.) Buy a phone that has a built-in switch (Cisco, Polycom come to  
mind). Unless your LAN is really, really heavily loaded, you  
shouldn't run into any problems whatsoever.

2.) I assume that your customer currently has one RJ-11 phone jack in  
each cube, in addition to the RJ-45 data jack. In that case, don't  
use VOIP phones or ATAs. Use analog phones or even ADSI analog phones  
connected to a T1 channel bank, connected in turn to a T1 card in the  
asterisk box. No QOS problems, no rewiring.

3.) If you don't want to buy phones that don't have a switch built- 
in, buy small netgear 5-port switches and use them instead at each  
workstation. One downside of this approach, however, is that the  
switch is just one more item for which you have to provide a backup  
power source if you want your phones to work when the lights go out.

Those would be my recommendations, in order of preference.

Tom

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