<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Patrick Lists <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:asterisk-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl">asterisk-list@puzzled.xs4all.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Is this everyone else's experience as well?<br>
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No the opposite. I have never heard of troubleshooting problems when using the switch on the phone. Maybe cheap crappy phones give you problems but I have never seen it with Polycom, Aastra, Snom or Cisco.<br>
Also you would need to have a second LAN port at each desk. I have come across only 2 places where that was the case and that's only because they had downsized freeing up LAN ports formerly belonging to the other desks in the room.<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>We primarily serve businesses with 5-60 phones. We've found an even mix of:<div><br></div><div>Have two drops already (sometimes one is "phone" but is Cat 5 or better)</div><div>Have a single but willing/happy to add a second</div>
<div>Want to use a single with the phone's switch</div><div><br></div><div>I can only recall one customer who truly needed to have GB to the desktop. This company is running huge construction plan drawings all over the network and there's a clear measurable improvement with GB. They ran additional drops for the phones.</div>
<div><br></div><div>A few others said they have GB to the desktop, so we told them to nail down a few connections to 100m and then survey the users. None of them could tell the difference, as they were just using everyday office applications where this doesn't matter.</div>
<div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Carlos Alvarez</div><div>TelEvolve</div><div>602-889-3003</div><div><br></div><br>
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