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LAN Upgrades Inflate True IP Telephony Costs
Nemertes Research, Dec 2010, Pages: 9
IP telephony and unified-communications projects require careful planning and budgeting and often companies don’t do enough of either. Prior to these implementations, the network or infrastructure team must evaluate network readiness and calculate the costs involved with upgrades on both the LAN and WAN.
This paper focuses on the LAN upgrades, which typically include the addition of Power Over Ethernet (POE) switches, Cat 5/6 cabling, sometimes the addition of wireless infrastructure to support wireless IP phones and perhaps Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS).
Often, companies spend more on the LAN upgrade than they budgeted, either because they didn’t evaluate the LAN at all or because they didn’t run the appropriate baseline network assessments to determine the actual upgrades required for the IP telephony or UC equipment the organization is implementing. The end result erodes the return-on-investment of convergence projects.
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