<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/6/13, Darrick Hartman <<a href="mailto:dhartman@djhsolutions.com">dhartman@djhsolutions.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Andrew Latham wrote:<br>> Oliver<br>><br>> The thing you missed about Gigabit enabled SIP hardphones is the<br>> demand for them.<br><br>Not true. I can think of several places where I have or would like to<br>
install phones where the end users currently have Gigabit ethernet feeds<br>to workstations. Specifically if you are using a high-overhead system<br>like Quickbooks Point of Sale and need a phone at the same location, the
<br>end users will notice a significant performance hit by dropping them<br>down to 100Mbit.<br><br>It's not so much that the phone needs Gig, it's that the pass thru<br>connection needs gig.<br><br>> Andrew<br>
><br>> On 6/12/07, Olivier <<a href="mailto:oza-4h07@myamail.com">oza-4h07@myamail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hello,<br>>><br>>> Beside Cisco 79x1-GE, I'm not aware of any Gigabit SIP Phone.<br>
>> Did I miss something ?<br>>><br>>> Regards<br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>><br>><br>></blockquote><div><br>That's the exact point : some users need 1GE and with 10/100 embedded switches, IP hardphones become the bottleneck, if you can't afford to use separate cabling and network.
<br><br>Today, buying extra ports for stations having extra bandwidth requirements is acceptable as 10/100 LAN access is the norm.<br>But it could be painful to explain executives, every IP Phone you bought during 2007 will not keep up with 1GE LAN.
<br></div><br></div>Cheers<br>