Prepare Your UniFi Network For Voice Over IP

If your'e doing to deploy voice on your network -- create a VLAN for voice only devices. Follow along to find out why.
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[@CBHTech]

Particularly a VoIP network with a Cloud PBX (such as SwitchVox).

[@aaronhilbert2687]

Love to see more about Voip on UniFi

[@JasonsLabVideos]

FIRST, and this is exactly what I do for all my clients too ! & my new Grand stream network too :)

[@WillieHowe]

There's really no excuse not to do it.

[@JasonsLabVideos]

@@WillieHowe agree, isolate it, then QoS if the internet bandwidth is low.

[@byrd203]

even with a home phone that used to be on my network I did vlans one for data one for voice one for vms one that only had isp1 traffic I could test with and second isa also had its own lan then I have anther lan for all isa traffic to combine all of my sips into one as a test and when needed I will use it and I have QOS setup for voice and VPNS and other important inbound traffic it works well

[@robbi9789]

Big Willie 💪

[@rrrussell1009]

May want to redo this video since port profile has changed a bit in the last couple of updates.

[@CBHTech]

Would like to see a video on setting up a VoIP network in 2024. Do all Unifi gateway models support this today?

[@heselmas]

We are not against voice vlan's. But we cannot see a quality issue between vlan voip and mixed voip. You can still do qos in the firewall. *Yealink phones with cloud voip.

[@altuntops]

I would like you to retell LLDP-MED as in your old video. Thank you.

[@sigp229is]

When creating a voice network it automatically creates an un-editable switch port voice profile. Anyway to simply use whats automatically created?

[@jasonhassler7640]

Nice video. Is there a setting that prioritizes traffic for this VLAN to prevent dropped packets? Also, why use a port profile over just assigning the port to the VLAN?

[@DanFloodCanada]

This is great stuff. I have my switch profile set, everything setup like this, the phone even gets a VLAN tag when it requests but it never gets an IP from the UDM SE and I can't figure it out

[@Polkster13]

Great info. I already had a VLAN for my VoIP phones, but I did not have a Voice port profile set up. I have a UDM SE and the options are a bit different than what you show. I am also unclear as how to set this new port profile that I have just created to my phone. What firewall rules need to be set up or does the Port Profile take care of this for you?

[@nzitguy]

go to switch, select port, then drop down to custom profile. (selecting the profile for voice)

[@ChristopherScanlan88]

Nice. Been looking for that vlan pass through on the phone.

[@QuikTechSolutions]

Great information to share!

[@user-iy4jj1dv5q]

Mr. Howe, Im a midrange engineer and i have problems with VLANS, just never set right in my head. My Network is using a USG Pro 3 appliance with a vlan capables switch. My setup is as follows USG --> Switch --> VOIP PHONE --> PC. I understand your video and it was VERY useful except I want to route the Data over Default (vlan-1) and VOIP traffic from phones over vlan 41. Will your explaination work copy/paste on my network. Im having performance anxiety on this and truly am reaching out for a Hey don't do that or Yes this configuration should work. ANY advice would be GREATLY appreciated sir! thanks! justin

[@benjaminwexler1420]

I have an IP speaker system that is integrated into our security system software. I would like to allow my phones to be on the same VLAN to allow for paging from phones to speakers. Do you see these as being an issue , if so how would you suggest resolving to (a) allow communication from phones to speakers and (b) allow the security team to still see both the speaker & camera system?

[@chucksw1]

Im about ready to convert my home 6202 PBX and 3 voip phones to my voice vlan, so all I need to do is change the IP address's of the PBX and phones from my default LAN to static address's in my voice VLAN. im running pfsense and Unify Switches and AP's at home, all was working good on the default vlan, but for the reasons you mentioned im going to convert over!

[@WillieHowe]

Do you already have the 6202? If not I would go with a 63xx model.

[@chucksw1]

@@WillieHowe Yes I have been running the 6202 since I watched your first video on it:)

[@gregoryallen5984]

Is this as critical when the voip is only a pots line in and the phones are internal voip only?

[@TheCompton2010]

Would you recommend the newer enterprise switches for an office of 50 people with voip phones that their computers also connect to? We currently have older Aruba switches that need replacing. Thanks

[@InformedGlobe]

I have the UniFi Dream Machine SE, but I don't see that PROFILES option, is it different?

[@Dentek864]

Thanks for the video Willie. I've been doing an install with Talk and Talk Touch phones, trying to get them working on their own vlan and I was running into problems (date/time not correct, not showing up on the console, etc) so I submitted a support ticket and Ubiquiti told me to work properly the phones have to be on the same vlan/network with the console running Talk. Have you successfully done an install with phones segregated on their own vlan?

[@dereknoll]

Is a separate VoIP VLAN essential for a standard home? I have one UniFi phone of which UniFi is the SIP provider. Bandwidth is 1.2gbps/40mbps. I’ve never had any choppy audio or problems at all having the phone on the main LAN.

[@tofu713]

do you / have you used the smart queues or the new traffic routes for QoS-ish for Voip on bandwidth congested internet?

[@online_now6834]

what do you do when your voip is over wifi like the analog ATA device?

[@ThePoorInvestor]

What about setting dhcp options 66 to a vlan? Is that required?

[@Dentek864]

By the way I have a UDM Pro SE running Talk

[@smouse85]

Can get this to work with unifi dream machine pro and unifi talk. Where talk phone will be on my voip network(lvan 5) and pass-thought port to be on my computer network (vlan 4)

[@johnmasters3851]

Will Grandstream UCM6208, GXP series Phones self configure or would I need to set each VOIP port in the switch ?

[@MitchellEarl]

Did you mean to select both VoiP(16) and the native LAN for allowed networks, select all that apply? I have up to 25 phone users on Edgerouters with nothing more than smart queue QOS turned on and haven't experienced any problems.

[@WillieHowe]

We sell systems -- everything is curated to work without us.

[@itrockstars_canada]

Whilst i don't disagree with 99% of what you say there's a lot of best practices there for sure. I have a couple of customers who at this moment have no choice but to have everything on the same LAN and all use Multicast Paging Flawlessly which is down to configuration....even over a wireless bridge.

[@WillieHowe]

How many clients?

[@itrockstars_canada]

@@WillieHowe 2, maybe 3.

[@JCesarAguilar]

Followed your directions and applied Voice profile to port on switch going to Unifi phone and it applies default (private network) ip addresses to both poe/vlan port and PC port. Did reboot devices just incase. Not able to get voip ip address on phone and default network ip address on pass through pc port. Have the latest firmware and updates. Any advice greatly appreciated. Love your Unify informative videos! Thanks!

[@WillieHowe]

Oddly enough, it doesn't work with their own phones.

[@albanabraham5295]

Where can I find the Grandstream VoIP Product Selector that's on your website?

[@WillieHowe]

Under the Grandstream heading at the top.