On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Simon Woodhead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon.woodhead@simwood.com" target="_blank">simon.woodhead@simwood.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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.</div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Carlos Alvarez</div><div>TelEvolve</div><div>602-889-3003</div><div><br></div>