[62270] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP telephony
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Sep 17 05:44:09 2003
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:41:46 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Christopher Bird <seabird@msn.com>
Cc: Nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <002101c37c9a$ecef7630$3601a8c0@cb>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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, youīll likely to succeed. If you donīt,
go with the traditional way, because then you donīt have to make the people
communicate.
Pete
