[Asterisk-Users] What business IP phone to use

[Rich Adamson]

> > How does a large file transfer like your excel spreadsheet 
> > example, affect communication between an Asterisk server and 
> > SIP phone?  The only possible configuration I can think of 
> > that would cause a problem is if the client PC is sharing the 
> > same eternet cable and therefore the same physical port on 
> > the switch as the SIP phone.  Other than that or if your 
> > asterisk server is also a file server (which should never be 
> > done), I don't see a problem or am I missing something.
> 
> Theoretically if you had 2 switches, with your servers on 1 and clients +
> phones on the other, and only a single link between them, you could saturate
> the link between the two switches.

Exactly, and that's when a reasonable switch with management will
report dropped packets on the uplink port.