[cisco-voip] GiGE phones -what for?!?

[Steve G]

What about the PC that is plugged in behind the phone.  That talks on the
network too.  So maybe their concern is at the PC/Workstation level and want
greater than 100Mbps throughput.

On 8/1/06, Dixon, Wayne <wcdixo at aurora.lib.il.us> wrote:
>
> The only thing I could think of that MIGHT require GigE would be
> video... If you were going to do that... Otherwise I would think it
> might be overkill.
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:57 PM
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> Subject: [cisco-voip] GiGE phones -what for?!?
>
>
> Hi, everyone,
>
> I have had a strange request from a subsidiary of ours, in regards to a
> new
> VoIP network design, in an office environment with 100-150 users, in
> regards
> to supporting GiGE to the all the end points, and high end 6500's at the
>
> core, w/720 SUP's. The Cisco reps were asking for that presumably
> because of
> need to support GiGE phones. And here is my question: what would you use
>
> Cisco GiGE phones for (what application on the phone would be able to
> push
> and require such port speeds)?!?
>
> As as a side note: our original design provided 4500's and 10/100
> modules to
> the end points, except for a module with GiGE for file servers
> connectivity.
> Of course the pricing of the former is triple compared to the latter,
> but I
> would like to find out some technical aspects related to justifying the
> first
> option, before even bringing up the cost issue.
>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
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