Digital phone line, ethernet phone cabling question
We currently have our main landline phone (answerphone and handset) and the master Virgin telephone socket in the lounge, and there is a very short coax cable through the wall to the outdoor wall-mounted Virgin cable termination box.
Conversely, the Virgin Hub (which is in modem mode) is tucked away in a back office room on a rack/shelf with various other network kit (Netgear Wi-Fi access point, 10-port switch, NAS, home automation, UPS, etc).
All cabling is embedded through the walls, nothing is surface mounted. There is gigabit Cat-6 network cabling throughout, including from the networking rack shelf through to the lounge where there is a secondary 5-port gigabit Switch feeding the TV, Virgin Cable box, BluRay player, surround system, etc.
When it comes time to switch to VOIP telephony, is there an option for an ethernet-connected breakout box to plug the phone into, which I could simply plug into the existing Switch in the lounge? It won't be at all practical to run extra RJ11 cabling from the Virgin Hub location to the answerphone base in the lounge (they are five rooms / four doors apart). Nor would it be possible to move the answerphone/phone baseunit onto the rack shelf, as we use it in the lounge not in a cubbyhole.
Andre