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Sonic Wall & VOIP Integration
LockedHey guys,
I am not an expert on VOIP, but I wanted to raise a question, about best practices of VOIP and Data convergance.
Right now I am working with a VOIP provider driven off of AVAYA phone systems, and Kentronix routers to link the sites together (either by VPN or MPLS, not sure yet which one we are going with yet).
The issue comes with the underlying network we are integarting VOIP into. Basically our lan users at each od our 9 sites have their traffic passing through a sonicwall router, filtering web content, and deep packet scanning for network intrusion.
Now to make things more complicated we have 8 branch sites connected to our main sonic firewall through a site to site VPN.
I am wondering how integrating this new VOIP system with KENTRONIX routers will effect what is going on here.
What is best practice?
Should we have all voice and data traffic passing through bothe routers? example: traffic –> ketronix –>sonicwall–> switches — > phone and PCs?
Or keep them seperate? on seperate routers, switches? or even take it a step further, and have them on seperate ISP all together.
What do you guys do? How is it setup at your site? Do you use sonicwall or similar services?
Thanks guys, lets start brain storming.