asterisk users - Jul 2006 - sip phone networking question [possibly OT]

I have a client that is looking for a "least cost" solution  of
providing
more SIP phones to an existing asterisk setup.

The Issue is this: He has 7 total data run lines running back to the 
switch/phone room (small company).
However the want to add a total of 5 or more Phones. He doesn't want to foot
the cost of running more data lines along the middle of a large room all the 
way to the walls and then back to the phone room.

I was wondering if we could uplink small switches to the wall data ports to 
the switch, and connect the additional SIP phones to them to get them 
connectivity to Asterisk?

As long as each phone has seperate IP, i'm not sure if there would be a 
problem.

Anyone care to chime in to point out any pitfalls or potential problems with 
this setup?

Thanks!



Terrelle

Shouldn't be a problem as long as you're using switches and not hubs,
and
the network is atleast 100Mb.

-brandon

On 7/31/06, T. Shaw <xytek@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a client that is looking for a "least cost" solution  of
providing
> more SIP phones to an existing asterisk setup.
>
> The Issue is this: He has 7 total data run lines running back to the
> switch/phone room (small company).
> However the want to add a total of 5 or more Phones. He doesn't want to
> foot
> the cost of running more data lines along the middle of a large room all
> the
> way to the walls and then back to the phone room.
>
> I was wondering if we could uplink small switches to the wall data ports
> to
> the switch, and connect the additional SIP phones to them to get them
> connectivity to Asterisk?
>
> As long as each phone has seperate IP, i'm not sure if there would be a
> problem.
>
> Anyone care to chime in to point out any pitfalls or potential problems
> with
> this setup?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Terrelle
>
>
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Should be no problems at all. But keep in mind that you're getting what you
pay for. There have been a few posts recently regarding issues with a
Polycom 501 that turned out to be (partially) related to the networking
equipment used. Make sure you get a good quality switch (and NOT a hub, as
Brandon's pointed out), and you'll be fine.

Alex


On 7/31/06, T. Shaw <xytek@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a client that is looking for a "least cost" solution  of
providing
> more SIP phones to an existing asterisk setup.
>
> The Issue is this: He has 7 total data run lines running back to the
> switch/phone room (small company).
> However the want to add a total of 5 or more Phones. He doesn't want to
> foot
> the cost of running more data lines along the middle of a large room all
> the
> way to the walls and then back to the phone room.
>
> I was wondering if we could uplink small switches to the wall data ports
> to
> the switch, and connect the additional SIP phones to them to get them
> connectivity to Asterisk?
>
> As long as each phone has seperate IP, i'm not sure if there would be a
> problem.
>
> Anyone care to chime in to point out any pitfalls or potential problems
> with
> this setup?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Terrelle
>
>
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I have some ethernet cable splitters I'm not using any more.  They go in 
  pairs, one plugs into the wall socket in the office, the other plugs 
into the other end of the same cable in the server room.  each gives two 
female ethernet sockets that represent two separate network cables, each 
using two of the pairs.  Works great at 100Mb speeds, we needed one of 
the lines to be gigabit and they weren't cutting it for that so we ran 
more cables.

This might be considerably cheaper than extra switches, but your main 
switch has to have enough ports to accommodate the extra stations.

Contact me off-list if you would like to purchase them.  I have 9 pairs, 
which would turn 9 cables into 18.

Moj

T. Shaw wrote:
> I have a client that is looking for a "least cost" solution  of
providing
> more SIP phones to an existing asterisk setup.
> 
> The Issue is this: He has 7 total data run lines running back to the 
> switch/phone room (small company).
> However the want to add a total of 5 or more Phones. He doesn't want to
foot
> the cost of running more data lines along the middle of a large room all
the
> way to the walls and then back to the phone room.
> 
> I was wondering if we could uplink small switches to the wall data ports to
> the switch, and connect the additional SIP phones to them to get them 
> connectivity to Asterisk?
> 
> As long as each phone has seperate IP, i'm not sure if there would be a
> problem.
> 
> Anyone care to chime in to point out any pitfalls or potential problems
with
> this setup?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Terrelle
> 
> 
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> I was wondering if we could uplink small switches to the wall data ports
to 
> the switch, and connect the additional SIP phones to them to get them 
> connectivity to Asterisk?
Yes, we do it and it works fine, as long as you don't cascade more than 3
switches between two devices your latency should be fine, also make sure
they are good switches like a 3com and not a crappy dlink.