Re: Virtual Routing for Voice Traffic

["Brian T. Huntley" <bhuntley () CLARKSON EDU>]

We've run a converged network for over a decade. QoS can be a challenge,
especially if you have a heterogeneous hardware config on your network, but
running your VoIP over a separate vlan on your data net shouldn't be a
problem.  For us, anything considered "life safety" uses POTS lines.  Our
network simply isn't engineered with sufficient redundancy to make it
life-safety worthy.

Brian

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Brian T. Huntley
Director of Network Services and Information Security
Office of Information Technology
Clarkson University
315.268.6723

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Nicholas Garigliano <ngarigl8 () naz edu>
wrote:

> Technically, it is easily doable.  The one thing to the keep in mind is
> the stability of your data network, i.e. layer 2-3.  Any issues will shut
> down your phones and that might be considered a safety issue (i.e. 911 for
> dorms) depending on where you are located.
>
> Nick Garigliano
> Network Security Engineer
> Enterprise & Network Solutions
> Nazareth College
> 585 389-2109
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Rob Milman <rob.milman () sait ca> wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > We've been running our voice network on a separate VLAN on our data
> > network for well over a decade. It's worked well for us with no problems
> > that I can recall.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rob
> > Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> > SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of John Center
> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 6:40 AM
> > To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> > Subject: [SECURITY] Virtual Routing for Voice Traffic
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > (I posted this to the NETMAN list, but I thought I'd also ask the
> > Security people, since this is one of our concerns.)
> >
> > We're having a debate about how to best route voice traffic over our data
> > network.  Right now, we have a physically separate data & voice
> > infrastructure, but want to consolidate for cost savings.  How many schools
> > are using virtual routing to separate voice & data over a common network
> > infrastructure?  How many are running both without any routing separation,
> > except for voice VLANs?  Why?
> >
> > Inquiring minds want to know...  :-)
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >      -John
> >
> > --
> > John Center
> > Villanova University