[Asterisk-Users] Generic Question: Why should I use Asterisk over SIPxchange?

[Waldo Rubinstein]

Michael,

This grabbed my attention. I'm fairly new to * and have been going  
back and forth among linux distros. The one I have found most stable  
is FC4, specially considering the fact that I use ztdummy since I  
don't have zap boards in them.

Now, I've seen AstLinux postings on the list every once in a while  
but I never really bother to look into it, until I read your posting.  
It certainly looks interesting. The thing that caught my attention  
most is the fact that it's such a small footprint, that it could be  
relatively easy to build an small asterisk farm of servers that could  
allow "easier" scaleability as well as build redundancy and fault- 
tolerance.

Now, the question I have is what would be the simplest configuration  
of hardware/AstLinux you would recommend for a small office that  
would have 40 SIP phones and 1 T1 Digium/Sangoma card with a channel  
bank on the smallest footprint running off of CF?

Thanks for your input.

Waldo

On Aug 3, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Michael Graves wrote:

> Finally, Astlinux is such a usefull and reliable thing. My * server
> boots from CF and stores configs and VM on a USB key. While it's on a
> UPS if it goes down for some reason it boots up to fully functional in
> about a minute. It's totally silent, fanless and just plain cool. One
> box. This serves my small office well.
>

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