IP telephony

Wed Sep 17 09:41:46 UTC 2003

Christopher Bird wrote:

>Does anyone here have any thoughts, experiences, etc. about the use of
>IP telephony in corporate environments?
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IP telephony works alright if you take the neccessary precautions for 
performance
management, monitoring, rate-limiting unwanted traffic, etc. which you 
should do
anyway. Most organisations have gotten along and are acting in reactive 
mode
whenever new "threats" are "discovered".

Most problems with IP telephony come from the "router people" not talking
to the "firewall people" and both of them not talking to the "telephone 
people".
If you can get those lines working, you´ll likely to succeed. If you don´t,
go with the traditional way, because then you don´t have to make the people
communicate.

Pete