Most IT dept hold to the philosophy that individual mission purpose devices will do a better job. Also helps minimize failiure issues. I guess we are talking small companies here. If the user is over 50 employees, I think seperate is not only smart, but economically reasonable as well.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Quidigal</b> <<a href="mailto:services@quidigal.com">services@quidigal.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">JR is right. We have such an implementation that we developed in '00 and<br>have been running on embdded and pc architecture systems.
<br>Until we were able to control resource allocation took a lot of testing<br>about 2 years. Some of our systems even had the access part on them as well<br>and in many instances we had hardware acceleration for VPN and NAT and still
<br>was tricky.<br><br>robert<br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "JR Richardson" <<a href="mailto:jmr.richardson@gmail.com">jmr.richardson@gmail.com</a>><br>To: <<a href="mailto:asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com">
asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com</a>><br>Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 3:54 PM<br>Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] New IP PBX lifting the bar<br><br><br>>> This new bread of gear seems to be PBX, Firewall, Router, POE switch etc
<br>>> rolled into one unit.<br>>><br>>> Has anyone else seen new commercial new gear that has equally impressive<br>>> feature sets?<br>>><br>><br>> I believe someone came up with a combo Asterisk PBX with
<br>> Router/VPN/Firewall<br>> image a couple of years ago. Don't ask me to point it out, it's lost in<br>> the<br>> ether I think. I didn't hear any specifics about commercial installs and<br>> how well the system performed in real world.
<br>><br>> My biggest concern is resource contention on the platform, what happens<br>> when<br>> the router/vpn/firewall has 8 vpn connections, natting 60 sessions and<br>> applying QOS to the outbound RTP stream for 10 calls whilst the PBX is
<br>> recording calls, playing a couple of auto attendant loops and hosting a 6<br>> person conference bridge?<br>><br>> JR<br>> ---<br>> JR Richardson<br>> Engineering for the Masses<br>><br>><br>
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