[Asterisk-Users] suggested hardware especially sound cards

David Mutterer dave at dcentral.com
Fri Oct 3 11:07:48 MST 2003


I would love to see this kind of information.


> Hello,
>
> I've seen various suggestions thrown around for hardware when people
> ask, but can we all agree on some basic hardware recommendations for a
> few basic setups(and post them on a website) to make it easier for new
> people to avoid some of the hardware/software pitfalls when they are
> setting up their first systems.
>
> Something like this:
>
> (THIS IS JUST A PROPOSED LAYOUT SO PLEASE BE GENTLE)
> for a single corporate office T1 system with 40 employees:
>
> P4 2.0GHz, 1GB RAM, 80GB IDE mirror RAID with promise card
> Digium T1 card
> sound card XXXX (someone please suggest a good universal sound card that
> works well with Linux and Asterisk)
> Redhat 9.0 with all development packages selected
> mpg123 compiled from source
> asterisk build
> 42 x cisco 7960 (or grandstream 102) phones running G711u codec
> 2 x cisco ATA 188 (or grandstream HT) adapters for analog phones and
> faxes
>
>
> I'd be happy to post the suggested configs on my website or maybe one of
> the dozen other people that host Asterisk info sites could post them
> there.
>
> I think we should have these setups listed:
> - home user with 1-2 telco lines and 2-5 phones
> - small office with 4-8 telco lines and 8-16 phones
> - small office with a fractional E1/T1 and 12-24 phones
> - medium office with full E1/T1 and 24-48 phones
> - medium office with 2-4 E1/T1s and 48-100 phones
> - large office with 4-16 E1/T1s and 100-500 phones
> - multi-location corporate offices with 16-64 E1/T1s distributed and
> 500-2500 phones
> - ACD heavy office suggestions
> - IVR or Conference heavy suggestions
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> MATT---
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