[Asterisk-Users] Re: Mission-Critical Deployments

[John Goerzen]

On 2005-11-17, C F <shmaltz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2. What do we need to do for our data network to make VOIP reliable?
>>    QoS, basic traffic prioritization on the switch, vlan, ???
>>
>
> If you are not running a bandwidth hungy network, then you might be
> able to work with just one vlan, if you don't want to take the chance,
> then yes you need: QOS, and VLANs.

Can you elaborate a bit on that?  I've never used VLANS, nor QoS on the
switch level.  Do we really get more reliability by using both, or would
QoS alone be enough?

>> 4. What is a good company to contract with for emergency support?
>>    Digium?
>
> If you need something like this, then either look on the wiki for
> local consultants, or you should consider digiums business edition
> package.

Hmm.  Is that the only one they support?

>> Is there anybody here that would be willing to serve as a reference
>> check for Asterisk should we pursue that path?
>
> I think the list is around 24-7. :)

<grin>

Thanks for the help.