

How do you present virtual servers on the proper microsegmented security zone when you cannot transmit tagged packets? If you don’t have 20 VLANs then what network security do you really have? So if you have 20 or 40 VLANs, so does that mean you are going to have 20 or 40 physical switches? More expensive because you have more switches to babysit and troubleshoot I would rather setup a network with physical segmentation. Phone subnet should be a separate VLAN, but the choice is made by ITSP to separate the phones using physically separate switching equipment. Each desk phone has its own network cable, which is good. If you don't know why you would have two network cables between a switch and a core router, go figure that out. I encountered this lack of vision of understanding in another client IT director earlier in the year. The technician in this scenario also could not believe we wanted two network cables between the switch and core router. If I have to physically go to a site to chase some cabling, something is really wrong. TCO comes from how much time it takes to maintain, manage, adds/moves/deletes/upgrades, troubleshoot. Some ITSPs have to pay for expensive add-ons like Auvik to try to compensate for the fact that they have inadequate switching equipment with inadequate design and a sprawl that they have to inventory and keep track of.
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Configures needed to support desk phones are completely different from those that are required to support domain joined Windows computer assets. It is not acceptable to have an allow everything network security posture.
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Then later, the technician runs a test for the VOIP service from a PC on the PC VLAN not from a PC connected to the phone VLAN.

The phones were plugged into the wrong switch ports.

We use our awesome switches to find out exactly where these other phones were plugged in. Technician says that two of the three phones are not working. On Monday, we send over the list of what switch ports are for printers, which are for PCs, and which are for desk phones. Phone VLAN on a switch and cross connected into a Firebox with desk phones, PCs, and printers in the environment
