Saving Big on a VoIP deployment
in English by Jim Van Meggelen of Core Telecom Innovations Inc. at AMOOCON 2010
Abstract
If you are looking to deploy VoIP telephones, but are concerned about the network and cabling costs, you’ll want to attend this talk.
It is a little known fact that Cat3 cabling is not voice cabling. It is in fact network cabling, designed to support 10-base-T ethernet and 16 meg token ring.
Many businesses installed this cabling in the early 90s, only to have to replace it as data networks demanded better speeds.
For voice, however, this cabling still provides more than 100 times the bandwidth a VoIP telephone requires. It even adheres to the PoE standard!
Jim Van Meggelen will take you through what this is all about. In many cases you will be able to save tens of thousands of dollars on a VoIP rollout by re-using existing cabling.
