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

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

MessageMedical imaging comes to mind. We have a veterinary college on campus that is considering going digital format for all medical files, namely x-Rays. I believe these files are measured in gigabits. I can't imagine a vet waiting almost a minute to load a file. 

I also strongly believe that Gigabit nics and switchports even if not used to their full potential offer better performance than 100mbps NICs and switchports. We plugged a 100mbps NIC into a 1Gbps switchport on the same switch and the performance more than doubled.

My two cents.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dixon, Wayne 
  To: Steve G 
  Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 9:11 PM
  Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] GiGE phones -what for?!?


  That's possible, however, then it comes down to what is being used on that workstation that might possibly need that type of bandwidth?  And obviously some QoS would be involved, so if you're worried about somebody using 100Mb for an http stream, then you'd need to control that... I can't think of anything short of local streaming video that might possibly even need 100 Mbps.


  Wayne

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Steve G [mailto:smgustafson at gmail.com] 
    Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:08 PM
    To: Dixon, Wayne
    Cc: netfortius at gmail.com; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
    Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] GiGE phones -what for?!?


    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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      [mailto: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Netfortius
      Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 7:57 PM
      To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
      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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