[Asterisk-Users] Is Gigabit Ethernet necessary?

[Nick Bachmann]

rsenykoff at harrislogic.com wrote:

>
>  For an office that is using VoIP phones to connect to Asterisk, is
>  gigabit ethernet really necessary for the Asterisk box to connect to
>  the switch? I know that I won't even approach the limits of 100 Mbps,
>  but would gigabit help with latency / collisions when several calls
>  are underway? The fact is, anything going outside the office will be
>  over a data T1, so intuition tells me that 100 Mbps should be fine...
>  The office will have 20 phones, with remote VoIP phones added to the
>  mix later on.

http://www.voip-calculator.com/calculator/lipb/

Don't forget that you can't send 100 Mbps through a 100Mbps link.

>  TIA,

TR41, probably.

Nick