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Chapter 2 Campus Infrastructure Considerations
High Availability
Note The three-port switch has two external ports and one internal port.
Figure 2-3 shows the two basic parts of the IP phone—phone circuitry and
switching electronics—housed in the same package. There are two switched
connections available as RJ-45 jacks: one goes to the switch in the wiring closet
using a straight-through cable, and the other connects a PC or workstation. Two
additional non-Ethernet connectors can be used for attaching a headset and for
debugging purposes.
Figure 2-3 Cisco IP Phone Internals
High Availability
The distributed architecture of a Cisco IP telephony solution provides the inherent
availability that is a prerequisite for voice networking. Cisco IP telephony
solutions are also inherently scalable, allowing seamless provisioning of
additional capacity for infrastructure, services, and applications.
In the world of converged networking, in contrast to the world of the PBX,
availability is designed into a distributed system rather than into a box.
Redundancy is available in the individual hardware components for services such
PC/workstation
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