@Eunice, You are not late at all. I am keenly following the post. The information have gotten so far is great and very helpful so far. What i am still yet to grasp is the advantages of this approach as opposed to the standard way two cables, data and voice terminating at the dual wall plate. The approach of connecting phone to the pc seems to an old technology and adds extra cost to the whole cabling project. Troubleshooting also becomes complicated especially if you are to change the patch panel Moreover, the assumption is every user shall have an IP phone, what of situations where we have a workstation with users sharing the headset? Any way, i stand to be guided as i am not an expert in networking Regards Shad ________________________________ From: Eunice Wa <tewafula@gmail.com> To: skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke Sent: Thu, June 9, 2011 4:24:09 PM Subject: [Skunkworks] Structured Cabling Question Hi, Am not sure if am late on this one. This feature is not only specific to Cisco, actually most IP phones will have two ethernet ports, one to the network and one to the PC. No special cable is required, your ussual cat-5/6 cable will work fine here, you need a patch cord from phone to PC. Also you need an IP Telephony system as your back-end to work with the IP Phone. I have not worked with this technology on any analog system, am not sure how it would work out but would be interested to see that set-up. You can buy IP Phones with this capability, also powered by the same cable on PoE starting from Ksh.8,000 from www.talinda.net Thanks & Regards, Eunice ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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IT is called the CISCO IP phone system, it uses the same connection for data and voice
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com> wrote:
Corrections are welcome as to whether my thinking is correct, but a computer using a non-poe (ordinary LAN) cabling system uses only 4 strands (1,2,3,6) so you can carry two analog phone channels on that as well _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke/