IP phone with Dell Switch

[mmertens]

I have a customer that wants to deploy Cisco 79XX phones on a Dell Switch and already has a voice VLAN deployed. My question is: Will a Dell switch talk CDP to the phone and tell it what the VLAN assignments are? Does anyone out there have any experience with the Dell regarding Cisco Discovery Protocol (and their QoS implementation for that matter)?

Thanks!

[Brandon Buffin]

A Dell switch is not capable of CDP. Some of their switches are able to honor COS/DSCP markings for QoS. See the following link.

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pwcnt/en/app_note_11.pdf

Hope this helps. If so, please rate the post.

Brandon