Question : Separating VOIP and Data on an existing network

Hello-

I am trying to come up with a plan to separate my VOIP network from my Data network. I have another T1 that I want to use just for the data network. The problem is that my computer systems at the site plug into the VOIP Phone systems and the VOIP phone systems plug into the data drop in each office. I have HP Procurve 2810 in my server room and wanted to know how can I separate VOIP from Data within my current network infrastructure. I have DHCP on running on my DC and I believe the VOIP Phones are getting address from there.

If I can leave the network setup the same way and just plug the new T1 in and separate VOIP traffic from Data traffic that would be great.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Answer : Separating VOIP and Data on an existing network

As tim1731 has suggested, you need:

-to enable trunking on all your network switch ports.

- next you need to configure a second vlan(vlan2) on your switch

-next, you need to configure all phones to have a vlan tag id of 2

- next, configure all workstations to use vlan id 1

- next, you need to configure you sonicwall to communicate with vlan 1 an 2. I do believe you need th sonicwall enhaced OS for this functionality.

- next on your sonicwall you should then give sipp traffic highest priority if there is WAN site to site communications.

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