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Probably belongs on PCTECH.

Combining your voice and data is fine as long as your provider (or you)
sets up the router correctly.

Voice needs a higher priority (QoS = Quality of Service), but can be
limited from hogging all the bandwidth using Traffic Shaping.  Arguably
if you have this problem, you probably need more bandwidth as nobody
will want their calls dropped.

For a SOHO you could look at PBX systems like Asterisk and do it yourself.
http://www.asterisk.org/




Jim Franz wrote:
Customer had salesperson in today offering to replace all T1s with their 
managed voip system.
Currently one T1 for phone system, one T1 for data (lan access to web, 
iSeries webserver
and ftp up & down, remote access, etc). Also current T1 provider is our 
managed firewall provider.

As we go thru this analysis - what should I watch out for? 
When they talked about mixing voice & data, and voice taking priority, I get 
nervous.
Also, this proposal is a "managed" service, from their location. 
And finally, salesperson's claim their internet phones, with no 
configuration, can ethernet plug into 
any network in the world and autocfg   (cat5 into pc plugs into phone, then 
another cat5 to pc).
I would think a lot of router setups, home dsl or broadband, or firewalls 
might block this.

My responsibility is keeping iSeries and all services secure & always running.

jim franz


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