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Anyone using VoIP at your work?

enrage

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anyone using Voice Over IP at your work? If you are what are you using, Cisco, Siemens, etc...
DOing research for it right now for work and I just wanted to get some feedback from actually users.

Thanks
 
we're pushing it big time where I work. clients are interested but since times are tight it's more of a luxury than a necessity. We're a big Cisco VOIP shop.
 
Were looking into purchasing a small Cisco gateway and call manager to support at least 300 users for a new building. I've been doing tons of research looking at common problems. my main concern is the compatibility issue with our Siemens PBX switch. We will have a hybrid VoIP/PBX environment and I'm just trying to find out how well they merge together.
 
my friend, those issues are why you call up your local cisco rep and have him take you out to lucnch 5 times and have him bring in a sales engineer so they can answer your questions. Use cisco to help YOU out.
 
Ugh, there's just something about meeting with sales reps that bugs me.

We're planning a network upgrade here, and I'm looking at Cisco and Foundry stuff primarily, with some 3Com and HP thrown in for good measure.

I keep pressing my Cisco guy to tell me why Cisco is that much better than everyone else, and he can't, really.
 
if you have the time to do the research and check out compatability issues, then be my guest. but if you're strapped for time, tell your Cisco rep to bring a SE that knows his shit to answer any questions for you. Works for me.
 
The Nature Boy said:
if you have the time to do the research and check out compatability issues, then be my guest. but if you're strapped for time, tell your Cisco rep to bring a SE that knows his shit to answer any questions for you. Works for me.

That's just the thing; I trust my own research in a lot of cases more than what the companies give me, largely because I'm always watching for the sales pitch.

The thing I hate about this stuff is that I have not found nearly as many good resources for comparative information as you can for most everything else.

I'm still hunting for someone that's done a project similar to this one so I can pick their brain, and find out why they chose what they did.
 
enrage, sorry to kind of hijack your thread.

I meant to add this on as well: Cisco's 3550 and 2950 switches in combination are supposed to be good VoIP switches. From what my CDW rep was telling me, the Foundry stuff actually tested better running with Cisco's VoIP product.

We've got an old Lucent switch, and are pretty much expecting it to not integrate well if we go to VoIP down the road.
 
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