Cisco phones bandwidth

In terms of capacity it is neglectable. A 7961 here has an average five minute transmit rate of 500k and uses 0.50% of a 100BaseTX link when transmitting data. Receiving data is 100k in five minutes or 0.1% of the

On the other hand, the data packets need to be priorized.

Regards, Christoph Gartmann

there are some file / ftfp transfers during startup, and if you use the display there may be some data movement to support that.

once a voice call is in progress the real time traffic depends on the codec profile.

G.729 is something like 30 - 40 Kbps each way. G.711 is 90 Kbps

Some of the cisco phones support a wideband codec which is 256 Kbps of audio - say 300 Kbps all in.

Just for the voice stuff really