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[phil]

Hi All,
I'm looking after a Mitel 3300 setup after the initial installation by our telco, I have been ou tof the Mitel loop for a couple of years not but now I'm back in just wanted a couple of thoughts on the system setup..

The current layout has 2 networks - one for voice and one for data and the 2 do not touch each other at all. Its only a small office with 10 users at the moment, mainly connecting to data over wireless.

Now, one idea I have would be to merge the 2 networks, have the Mitel handle the DHCP, this would allow us to have a more secure office with no wifi and piggyback the data from the back of the phone. Is it worth doing? We did a similar setup in my previous job years ago, but it was a much larger office with the networks vlan'd..

Am I better to leave as is or to merge?

Thanks

Phil

[ralph]

With only 10 users on the network I wouldn't have any worries about merging the two.
Done this many times.
If the network grows you'll need to break them up again for QOS reasons but with something that small you should be fine.

Ralph

[phil]

Thanks Ralph - at what number would you suggest splitting?

[ralph]

I don't have a hard and fast rule on that. 
It depends too much on how they use their network and phones.
If it's a call center then you would expect a lot more voice traffic.
If it's a video editing center that would chew up a lot of data traffic.

It's pure SWAG.
If you have 20 phones and are getting call quality issues then it's time to split.
If you have 50 phones with not issues I wouldn't stress over it.

Ralph

[phil]

Thanks Ralph - appreciated.