asterisk users - Jan 2006 - Dell PowerConnect 2724 Switch and QoS for VOIP?

Has anyone had any experience with the Dell PowerConnect 2724 Gigabit  
Switch and VoIP traffic?  It seems to support Class of Service (CoS),  
but not full Quality of Service (QoS).

Will CoS help prioritize VoIP traffic at all?  I am setting up an  
asterisk PBX for 22 users with very light traffic, but I don't want  
to have the call start skipping just because someone is pulling a  
large file over the network.

If this switch isn't what I need, do you have any recommendations on  
reliable, cheap switches?

Dell 2724 Product Info
<http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/ 
pwcnt_2724?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd>

Cheers,
Sean



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On 1/20/06, Sean Tempesta <stempesta@mpp.org>
wrote:
>
> Has anyone had any experience with the Dell PowerConnect 2724 Gigabit
> Switch and VoIP traffic?  It seems to support Class of Service (CoS),
> but not full Quality of Service (QoS).


Honoring, and tagging, are completely different things. I believe that the
2724 will just honor QOS frames. The 6000 series Dell switches are the only
true Layer 3 switches with QOS. You will probably get less than stellar
reviews from this crowd but it's not a bad switch. I've used a 6024 as a
building core switch and not had a lick of problems.

-Brian
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