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Cisco? Avaya? Other?
What issues are you concerned about? Voice quality? Signaling? Endpoint registration?
Your question is too vague. If you want something all encompassing, you'll need a book...or series of books. Not a guide.
Licensing isn't a concern. Let's just say that large lab budgets are a good thing.
Aside from financial roadblocks....would I gain anything from implementing the dvSwitch?
I'm a little confused on the benefits of moving to a distributed switch. Keep in mind that this is for a home server, so the number of simultaneous users won't be huge (< 10). Right now, I have 4 physical NICs on my server connected to an HP 1810. I don't have LACP set up for those ports on...
What is your current PSTN connection? I'm assuming you are using one of your T1's as a PRI...or at least a partial PRI. You would almost be better off procuring a business class internet solution from your local telco/cable provider, since a T1 will only give you 1.5Mbps total.
As for your...
A lot also depends on what your existing telephony environment consists of. For example, if you are running a Cisco voice gateway, you can actually configure a fax to email TCL script (vial T37), and use your existing SMTP server to deliver a TIFF image of the fax to the user's inbox...
One last thing...do you have an H323 gateway configured in CUCM for CME? If not, you will need to configure one. You should also bind H323 traffic to an interface that has a route to CUCM. This is the IP address that you will need to configure as the gateway in CUCM.
You also mentioned that...
Any chance you could attach some debugs? Looks like you're trying to hit dial-peer 221 to CUCM, but we need to see why we're disconnecting. The debugs we need to see are:
debug voip ccapi inout
debug h245 asn1
debug h225 asn1
debug sccp event
One last thing...do you have an H323 gateway...
You're gonna need to elaborate a bit. I'm assuming this is an inbound call to a Unity AA, is that correct? Or is this just an inbound call to a hunt group? Are you coming inbound through an FXO line, or are you using a PRI or SIP trunk to the PSTN? Are you calling in from a CME phone, or...
QoS: marking IP packets in order to properly place them in the desired queue (RTP, voice signaling, etc). This allows you to carve out a dedicated piece of your overall bandwidth to reserve for these queues.
Shaping: limiting the flow of packets that traverse a particular interface in order to...
I've never used Vonage, but if they offer g729 instead of g711, you can decrease your bandwidth requirements down to 8kbps instead of 64. Even if your total bandwidth is remotely respectable (DSL speeds or better), you should be ok.
Wow...I didn't know my original question would spawn a debate. Thanks for all of the info, guys. Much appreciated. I think I'll check in to the 3725 to make sure my bases are covered. Seems to be the best $$ vs. performance that I can afford right now.
calvinj.....I would be interested in...