Thread-topic: New school using VOIP on the network
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We use the Cisco system here, 7 buildings so far, will be 10 soon. I run
the system...it is rather painless, however our installers do not EVER run
amuck in our closets without us. We create a patch list ahead of time of
where phones will be plugged in at, and which phones will be on a dedicated
jack if available, and which will share a data port with a computer (the
computer is then daisy chained to the phone since they all have mini
switches in them).
As far as networking goes, that is the least of the work, mostly the
dial-plan, organization, importing phone records, and users into the
voicemail system etc etc...that is the pain, hence the consultant being
hired to do it 8-)...
-Mike
On 1/4/06 9:29 PM, "Christopher Collins" <email@hidden>
wrote:
>
> Unfortunately nothing extremely specific. Its one of those "you'll have to
> see", but most often when any of our clients have temporarily changed their
> IP (some often thinking that its ok to switch it to dhcp briefly and then
> back) their DNS server 9 out of 10 times has broken and won't start up. That
> is the most common thing I have seen. As far as VOIP on the network, we had
> a school district who put one in a year ago, a bunch of CISCO brand,
> district wide. There were no problems at all, accept for the pain of the
> company doing that install having to put in some powered switches (they were
> powering the phones through the CAT 6 cable instead of having the phones
> have AC adaptors) and them stealing network ports and unplugging stuff from
> the patch panels. (Think district wide, and then try to imagine tracing down
> all those unplugged network jacks.) But as far as any technical problems,
> there weren't any. The IP phones were just as good of network citizens as
> any IP device on a network. The features were pretty great too. Especially
> what the server running the phones was capable of. I loved all call parking
> type features where you could park a call, drive to another school, and pick
> the call back up 8 miles away at another school. Pretty neat stuff.
>
> On 1/4/06 9:21 PM, "Dennis Ricke" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Have you had any specific issues you may have seen that I might be
>> looking out for? Any idea on how VOIP effects things?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> Christopher Collins wrote:
>>
>>> Have you tried the changeip command and followed all the instructions in
>>> apples documentation on changing Ips on a OS X server? Yeah, if it can ever
>>> be avoided though, its best never to change the IP. I would expect though to
>>> keep getting odd behavior from your server. If you run DNS on your server
>>> for sure I wouldn't be surprised if you run into issues there.
>>>
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>>> On 1/4/06 9:10 PM, "Dennis Ricke" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
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>>>> We've just been given our new school. Opening a new school in the
>>>> middle of the year is really an experience I hope to avoid for the rest
>>>> of my life, but we are getting by. It is such an improvement from our
>>>> old place we are smiling from ear to ear. One of the new things is a
>>>> VOIP system for the phones connected to our network.
>>>>
>>>> It has caused a few surprises. We were told initially it would be a
>>>> plug and play and we would be using our X Serve there. Well we had to
>>>> change all the IP's because the internet phones required it. Well
>>>> changing the IP on the server is not a recommended thing to do. What I
>>>> am looking for is advise on what I should be looking for as surprises in
>>>> the future. I've already found that AppleTalk is pitching fits. First
>>>> you can see the servers and the printers and then they disappear. On
>>>> the OS 9 machines we redo the Appletalk Preferences and we are hoping it
>>>> holds. Printing has been a nightmare today.
>>>>
>>>> Any comments on what my future may be like?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Dennis
>>>>
>>>> Dennis Ricke
>>>> School District 300 Tech Coordinator
>>>> Algonquin Lakes/deLacey Family Center/Perry
>>>> 1401 Compton Drive
>>>> Algonquin, Il 60102
>>>> 1-847-875-2399 (cell)
>>>> 1.847.854.3900x 237 (Office)
>>>> 1.630.365.9256 (Home)
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