Any CISCO / VOIP Gurus?

Lil306

OK, before I start I'll give a brief overview. I'm interested in developing my home network partly because I like playing and will eventually be making a small LAB setup for a CCNA course. The home setup will be housed inside a rack and will be used for different things that will be available in my home network Patch Panels, SAN, NAS, VPN, RAS, Structured Wiring, Wireless, DHCP, F&P, KVM/IP, etc..

EDIT - Also something I missed off, weather station monitoring, cctv over ip, etc, etc, etc.... I know it doesn't affect it as everything goes through the switch. I just want to mention it to make sure nothing gets missed off.

Now:
I have a BT ADSL Line, which has one of those free VOIP numbers assigned to it for a VOIP Phone. If I disconnected all my current internet and hooked it up to a Cisco ADSL Router, which would then feed a Gigabit Switch for network could I connect up a decent VOIP phone like Avaya and be able to use the normal options available to those phones whilst keeping the BT number I was given with my internet?

I suspect it's possible, but not sure how the setup would run. Any thoughts?

I'm going to be collecting the equipment over time, as opposed to all in one go. Eventually all the setup will be getting moved to a rack inside a datacentre for the moments it's just for my own personal use to play with...

tomsolomon

I hope you have deep pockets.....:eek:
For the time being you might want to look at CISCO's Network simulator...

http://www.boson.com/

This will give you good insight into what you are letting yourself in for.....:D

Lil306

tomsolomon wrote: »

I hope you have deep pockets.....:eek:
For the time being you might want to look at CISCO's Network simulator...

http://www.boson.com/

This will give you good insight into what you are letting yourself in for.....:D

Ah the good old boson network simulators
I'm not interested in the top of the range models yet, just the functional ones..

Cisco Gig Switches and ADSL Routers can be had for next to nothing older variants obvioisly (in a real world I'd love a catalyst, but meh)

I'm going to buy a Watchguard Firebox, that's going to cost a lot lol, heavy DDOS mitigation is worth it however

Do you know if that setup could work, VOIP phone with Cisco Switch through Cisco Router (retaining BT number) ?

Lil306

Or alternatively, forgetting Cisco

Can someone suggest an ADSL router, that has a switch built into it (with Gigabit ports) around 8-16 of them (ideally with DDoS Mitigation)

Due the ports it will be 1U/2U in rack size.

I love the Watchguard Fireboxs (for their throughput) and SonicWalls. So ideally from the Watchguard range. Even if it's router which has a HW firewall behind it.