Hal
I agree, no question my experience leans me towards an IP approach. No offence towards you Telco guys, but why shouldn’t everything be terminated the same. You can run voice on data but you can't run data on voice, so why have two separate systems? I try and design a system where all upgrades and changes are accomplished in the telephone room with a few patch cables and not at the faceplate. Worst case would be, making a cable with a 568B plug on one end, plugging it into the patch panel and then punching it down to standard Telco pinouts on a 110 block. I don't see what is so difficult about that. Also, in the last two years or so I have yet to receive a spec sheet for a bid job that specified anything other than Cat-5 cable, jacks and patch panels for voice and data, and that’s not from me that's from the engineer. I guess it's just a different point of view.
-Al
