Telephony: Configuring Voice VLANs
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The voice VLAN feature enables access ports to carry IP voice traffic from an IP phone. When a switch is connected to a Cisco IP phone, the IP phone sends voice traffic with layer 3 IP precedence and layer 2 class of service (CoS) values, which are both set to 5 for voice traffic; all other traffic defaults to 0.
Because the sound quality of an IP phone call can deteriorate if the data ...
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