Clipper on voice over IP network 1

[fbizzell]

Has anyone had any experience with Clipper applications running on voice over IP networks. Our company is installing a new 3 com voice over IP telephone system that will plug into our network through the ethernet connection and our computers will plug into the phone. Can we expect our network to perform the same as it always have and the clipper applications as well. We are using Clipper 5.2e and Netware 5.

 

[TonHu]

Depends purely on the provided network-speed. (Spec-sheet?) If it's the same speed as before (100 MBit/s?), then that should hardly be any problem, as voice doesn't require that much bandwidth. Unless ofcourse the entire 3000 person population is making phonecalls at the same time... ;-)

HTH
TonHu

 

[fbizzell]

Thanks TonHu for your reply. We are a small company with only about 200 employees and only about 30 of those spend any time on the phone at all. Also at any given time 65 of the 200 employees are on the network running applications. We will have 100 Mbit switch
that everyone plugs into.

 

[TonHu]

As far as I can see, the networkspeed should be close or equal to a 'normal' 100 Mbit/s switched network, what's probably what you had before (10 Mbit/s should have been dumped years ago ;-)).
The speed of such connection through the phone is AFAICS only affected during actual phone-calls on that same phone, but as for example ISDN uses only 64 kbit/s for a bright and clear speach-channel, and you have 100 Mbit/s available, the loss in speed should be below 1%. The "server-has-some-data-to-fetch" delay is a much bigger bottleneck than this VoIP-thing.

Happy networking!
HTH
TonHu