VLANs
VLANs are a fantastic way to isolate phones from data communications on your local network and if done correctly, they can improve call quality while preventing malicious activity.
You don't want data traffic on your local LAN (someone copying a movie, or taking a backup) to hog the bandwidth shared with phones and impair the quality of voice/video calls.
VLANs are often overlooked as optional but in fact, a lot of damage can be done by having phones on the same network as computers. It is simple to identify the IP address of a device and log in to it when they are on the same network. From there, it is trivial to lift the SIP username and passwords of many phones. For example, if you log in to an old Polycom phone, you can export the ...
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