To VLAN or not to VLAN, that is the question!
An assumption in this blog is that if your company has a ”network administrator” on
staff, you have a network that is large enough to require constant ”care and feeding”.
As such dumping a bunch of VoIP phones...
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To VLAN or not to VLAN, that is the question!
An assumption in this blog is that if your company has a ”network administrator” on
staff, you have a network that is large enough to require constant ”care and feeding”.
As such dumping a bunch of VoIP phones onto your network without VLAN’s would
never happen.
After all, the fist job of a network administrator is to make the network
broadcast space smaller and smaller.
That is why we subnet! Take a typical Class C
network with 100 network devices on it and dump another 100 VoIP phones in that
subnet and you are asking for trouble if you don’t VLAN.
To suggest you don’t need a
VLAN or at the very least, a separate subnet is just plain silly.
Did you ever hear the expression ’fences make good neighbors”? Well the same
concept applies to networks and VLANs make network applications like voice and data,
excellent neighbors! Lets assume those 100 desktop computers are in the 192.
168.
1.
0 /
24 subnet and you created a new 192.
168.
2.
0
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