[VoiceOps] VoIP on 10mb Cat 3 switched network

[Carlos Alvarez]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Simon Woodhead
<simon.woodhead at simwood.com>wrote:

> Then there's the switches. Are they switches or are they hubs? If hubs,
> forget it. If switches, are they supporting full duplex or are you looking
> at 5Mb each way? Managed or unmanaged - I'd suspect unmanaged in which case
> you're not going to be able to do a dedicated voice VLAN or manage QoS.
> That all points to jitter of varying degrees given either congestion or
> simple serialisation delay.
>

I was careful to specify it would be a switched network.  We'd be putting
in new switches.  The cabling is likely old, and was used with a standard
PBX previously.

My question was really about experience, not theory, and some of you shared
some very useful stuff.  I know in theory it "should" work, and I know old
cabling can have myriad problems.  Reality often works out very different
from theory.  In all likelihood, if we took this route, it would have a
contractual caveat that problems may be blamed on the cabling and they'd
have to swap it out.

-- 
Carlos Alvarez
TelEvolve
602-889-3003
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