ANS Cat5e/Cat6 cable.

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dd1313

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Hi guys

Anyone using this cable on there site ?
I want to use it at a site that will be doing VOIP.

Thanks
DD
 
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Liez!

VOIP is not data... its special, it needs special OFC Cat5e/Cat6 cable....
 
we use cat5e.. used to have 2 separate networks, one for data and for voip.. recently switched from hard to softphones for customer facing agents, who now run on data and voip on the same network..

we have yet to have any issues, other than one or two network loops we have had..

i should mention, not best practice, but we all know about low cost operating....
 
ponder said:
How did you manage that?
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Plug cable in port 1 and other end in port 2.

Just VLAN the subnets and you should be fine. As long as you don't violate the network with 10/100 gear and heavy data traffic you should be fine. Also POE helps reduce the power supplies of the phones. Means you need a POE managed switch.
 
ponder said:
How did you manage that?
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well, our hard phones have two network ports, one for poe and for data only.. but now you get some "clever" user who starts plugging the data network into the phone alongside the poe and he starts the loop.. queue the it department and network time runnign up and down between 3 floors looking for the suspect phone...
 
WAslayer said:
well, our hard phones have two network ports, one for poe and for data only.. but now you get some "clever" user who starts plugging the data network into the phone alongside the poe and he starts the loop.. queue the it department and network time runnign up and down between 3 floors looking for the suspect phone...
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No spanning tree?
 
dd1313 said:
Hi guys

Anyone using this cable on there site ?
I want to use it at a site that will be doing VOIP.

Thanks
DD
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VOIP is still in essence "data", using which ever codec, encapsulated into UDP packets. There is no right or wrong cat5/6 cable for either. It is however more prone to issues if latency and/or packet loss arises. As long as the cable is up to par with CAT5 or 6 standards you should be fine. If you plan on running data and voip on the same kit and cable, network segmentation is advised, as well as QoS.

WAslayer said:
Ill escalate your query to our netadmin at the time........... Needless to say he is no longer with us......
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Lol, I see this regularly at work. Also have hardphones with two ethernet ports, in our case I just hear of users not being able to connect to the network. First thing to check is ask for the PC's mac address and check for disabled ports.
 
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