Video Series: Configure VLANs, InterVLAN Routing, and VoIP with Cisco CME

This blog post is a result of the incredible number of views I've noticed on this article, Cisco VOIP Phone Setup in Packet Tracer, I shared some years back. I have had numerous requests to share the file and have done so but that is only just an initial basic setup. 

I have since done some updates to this tutorial and have created a series of video tutorials which I share on my Youtube page. 

To ensure best network design and implementation practice is followed, I decided to throw in VLANs and InterVLAN routing into the mix. This is to ensure that Voice traffic is put into its own VLAN. You can later add QoS (MLS, CoS) if you want to which is necessary if you're doing this in an actual physical implementation. The main idea behind this series of videos is to help you begin off with a blank Packet Tracer network, setup the network, configure basic settings, configure VLANs, and then interVLAN routing, and finally end with VoIP functionality added to the network. 

You can now easily follow through this series of video tutorials to learn how to configure VLANs, InterVLAN routing and VoIP. I decided not to narrate the videos. If you want to learn about the concepts please visit the Cisco Learn site or take networking classes offered on Coursera, Teachable, or the many other sites that do this. My main objective is how to do it, not the why you do it this way, many courses out there will help you learn the theory.

How to make the most of this tutorial?

Open a blank packet tracer file, begin with Part A and follow along. You can pause and play the video as you setup and configure the network.

Part A: Setup network

Part B: Configure basic settings for devices / Part C: Configure VLANs

Part D: Configure InterVLAN routing

Part E: Configure VoIP

 

Cisco VOIP Phone Setup in Packet Tracer

HERE IS AN UPDATED VIDEO SERIES THAT COVERS THIS TUTORIAL

The following tutorial is a result of endless research on how to setup a LAN with two or three IP Phones that can call each other. I compiled this tutorial together for my CCNA 1 students. The actual setup and documentation itself was used for the 2015 IS Open Day room 223 display, modelling a small business office setup. The last part involved a challenge activity for them to create trunk links to ensure calls can be made over the WAN

I used the Packet Tracer instructor version however any version will still support the following documentation.

The following diagram shows that there are four (4) Cisco IP Phones connected; two phones to the Madang network and two phones to the Lae network.

The current configurations for this setup are shown below;