[asterisk-users] 10/100 voip phones and gigabit connection

[randall]

hi all,

just subscribed to the list and first mail, nice to be here.

Hopefully i'm in the right place for this question since i'm planning a 
little VOIP implementation at the moment and ran in to something while 
going through the shopping list.

i noticed that a lot of VOIP phones have a double network interface 
allowing you to use only 1 LAN cable for both the phone and your 
desktop, a really nice feature that can save a lot of cable, but most 
are 10/100 connections while i have a gigabit network. Off course there 
are phones available with a Gigabit connection but these are at least 3 
to 4 times as expensive.

another option would be to have both desktop and voip phone each a 
dedicated line ( basically having 2 seperate networks ), already have 
these in place from the old/current situation but i was hoping to clear 
some cables.

does anybody know of another solution to this or is my conclusion above 
simply all the choice there is?

Much obliged,

Randall