Advice for Building Small Network Question

Hello,
I am building a small network environment which will connect to a larger office, scalability is important. We will begin having about 30 users which will all need VOIP services. The VOIP services will be hosted by a cloud provider. My question is as of now I am looking to obtain a Cisco 2921 ISR Router and then a Cisco 2960-X 48Gig POE, and my main question is I am confident the switch can handle the power and operation of the phones but just to make sure I should not run into any problems with the router as far as forwarding the data, correct? Any other comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Joe

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Hi Paul,
You are very welcome, I am very glad that my suggestions helped.
For your first question, in a domain, the Domain Controller clearly has much more tasks to perform than a work group server, while it also has more management options for an administrator to better control his/her client machines.
In addition, domain acts as a central management solution will reduce the work of the administrator. For an example, under workgroup mode, if we have multiple servers which have shared resources, we need to create the same user
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2269838
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http://support.microsoft.com/gp/gp_namespace_master#tab3
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc816610(v=WS.10).aspx
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Jeffrey Rodriguez S. .:|:.:|:.
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Anyway, whichever router you choose, you should be able to accomplish almost everything you need.
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Wireless speakers are generally a separate wireless system. As far as I know, there is a wireless transmitter that sits next to the amp (or other sound source), and broadcasts the music wirelessly to the speakers. You'd have to make sure the speakers and wireless router are on different channels as to not cause interference.
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