[Asterisk-Users] Computing horsepower needed

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

> This type of question comes up quite often. I don't know whether it is
> the frequency that annoys me or the seemingly implied "I don't want to
> use a modern machine, will this POS that I was about to throw in the
> dump going to make this work".

Amen to that.  I am running 1FXO and 1FXS on a P200MMX but I can't use iLBC 
because there just isn't enough horsepower there, but then again I'm just 
playing around.  I am a minimalist myself but c'mon people, "modern" 
systems are not expensive and unless you're doing multiple T1s stop worry 
about the CPU.  Spring for an Athlon or P3-class machine and start playing.  
It's trivial to upgrade hardware and if you've already cheaped out on the 
motherboard/CPU then you have extra money to get something bigger should 
the need arise.

Regards,
Andrew