[geeks] Phone system suggestions?

[Steve Haavik]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Nate wrote:

> Hmm, are VOIP phone systems like Asterisk typically run over the same
> physical TCP/IP network as the LAN?  I'm really a newbie when it
> comes to VOIP stuff like that...

The Nortel BCM400 we use at work uses the regular lan. It's only a problem 
when one of the Nortel switches (Passport something or other) flakes out 
each month (it's like clockwork, every 30 days, but the systems guys don't 
seem to realise it) and we lose the phones until/while the switch reboots. 
At least it means that when there is a problem no one can call to 
complain. I'm just glad it's not on my network. I haven't had a serious 
issue on my network since we dumped the old 3Com switches and moved to 
Cisco.