[Asterisk-Users] ultra-cheap (and easy) asterisk box

[listas iPfone]

I think that it will be greate to include * inside of a router like ix66
from intertex...  1 GB usb removable flash to record voice mail.and prompts
in the computer..2  fxo...real internal sip server ...internal dns
server..good user interface.. all nat / firewall nightmare ended, no
computers to worry about.

Just dreaming with my little office pbx for about $200

regards

Miklos


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Albertson" <chrisalbertson90278 at yahoo.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] ultra-cheap asterisk box


>
>
> I'm looking to do about the same thing, build very low cost
> systems.  (I'm looking at putting Asterisk at some
> non-profit organizations.)   but one thing you can't make
> a compromise on is reliabilty.  It has to work and keep working
> for years to come.  I was able to keep the price of a new PC
> to about $300 ad still use an ASUS mainboard and an AMD XP2600+
> The trick is to add absolutly nothing not needed.  No floppy,
> no CDROM so you can run off a 200W P/S.  Next I'll experiment
> with a notebook sized IDE disk drives and to see if _underclocking_
> the CPU reduces it's power comsumption enough that we can save
> one fan.
>
> Ideally Asterisk will be ported one day to Linux/ARM or some
> other very low cost platform.  for VOIP you do not need the
> PCI slots.  In theory Asterisk could run on a Lynksys router
> box with re-flashed EEPROM.  After all Lynksys' latest wireless
> router runs Linux inside
>
> Low cost to me means "low total cost of ownership"  To get this
> I don't think buying the lowest priced parts is the way to go.
> I want quality mainboard, and a quality power supply and, this
> is importernt:  A low internal case temperature.  for this reason
> I'll spend the extra $50 to go with Antec cases and ASUS mainboards
> over the generic ones.
>
> What I'm finding is that the PCs are so cheap that the cost of
> electric power to run them is now a large part of the cost.
> (assume 0.20/kwh times 200W times 365 days = $350.  So you
> pay for the PC again every year in electric power to run it.
> Worse.  In an office with airconditioning _all_ of that PC's
> 200W goes to heat and your A/C unit will use about 220W of
> power to remove that 200W of heat.)
> and at a small office they will not have a server room so noise
> from the fan is an issue.
>
> --- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy at karlsbakk.net> wrote:
> > hi all
> >
> > what about this...
> > I just put together a box on a web shop (komplett.no) that will cost
> > me
> > NOK ~1850 (¤ 216) plus a small ¤50 drive and cables, so say ¤300.
> > This
> > consists of a cheap MB with a duron 1400, 256MB SDRAM and two HFC-PCI
> > cards (if capijod will finish off the zaptel-driver soon). This is
> > all
> > in a cheap PC case.
> >
> > What do you think? Should this be doable? as a product? With only IP
> > phones and potentially a fax solution? any ideas?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > roy
> >
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