asterisk users - May 2005 - Newbie here. Tips on setting up 100 phones w anted.

>It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within
>about 4 miles of each other.
Perhaps a more pressing question might be how you are going to backhaul
Ethernet in a 4-mile radius. You can't run a Cat 5 cable more than 100
metres reliably, and using Ethernet repeaters every hundred metres or so
isn't practical. You will need a fiber backbone or something like that. What
is your plan to create an Ethernet network to tie these locations together?

On Fri, 27 May 2005, Colin Anderson wrote:
> >It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within
> >about 4 miles of each other.
> 
> Perhaps a more pressing question might be how you are going to backhaul
> Ethernet in a 4-mile radius. You can't run a Cat 5 cable more than 100
> metres reliably, and using Ethernet repeaters every hundred metres or so
> isn't practical. You will need a fiber backbone or something like that.
What
> is your plan to create an Ethernet network to tie these locations together?
I suppose he could use 10Base5 (Thicknet). That gives you a whooping 500m 
per segment. ;-)

Realistically there are lots of options - fibers, free space optics etc.

Peter

Cool. Sounds like you've got your poop in a group already. As to your
original question, I am partial to the Snom 190 phones, they are easy to set
up, look and perform great, users really like them, and they seem quite
tough. I have two of them running in a shop environment where they get
covered in sawdust every day and all the users do is blow the sawdust off
and dial. Working for 5 months so far no problems touch wood. 

hth

> >It will be about 100 phones at about 20 locations all within
> >about 4 miles of each other.
> 
> Perhaps a more pressing question might be how you are going to backhaul
> Ethernet in a 4-mile radius. You can't run a Cat 5 cable more than 100
> metres reliably, and using Ethernet repeaters every hundred metres or so
> isn't practical. You will need a fiber backbone or something like that.
What
> is your plan to create an Ethernet network to tie these locations together?
Or any of lots of different wireless facilities. We work with
multiple isp's that have customers ten miles or more and voip is
no problem for most of them.