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

[Frazee, Timothy]

Think of it like this.

You spent tons of $$$ getting 10/100/1000 blades.

All your workstations and most laptops now come with 1000Mbit NICs.

Whats the point in sticking a 10/100 switch (ip phone) right in the
middle.

Some could say, "I'll run a dedicated drop for the phones, that way Mr.
end-user gets his 1000Mbit connection, and I don't have to buy GiGE
phones"

Then your killing the whole point of the "one wire" deal.

The phones themselves will never need 1000Mbit. I bet they would be fine
on 10Mbit full.

Keep looking at the bigger picture. The Gigabit is not for the phones.
Its for the end devices. And yes, 9/10 times you don't need Gigabit to
the desktop. Medical and Engineering markets do, for valid reasons.

But some thought 100Mbit was a waste also.



Timothy Frazee 
Network Solutions
-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
[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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