[Asterisk-Users] Physically Small Box Asterisk Systems

[tmassey at obscorp.com]

asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote on 03/30/2005 01:46:10 PM:

> Looking for reccomendations for a physically small box configuration
> that will do:
>     Run Asterisk
>     One T1 Card
>     One LAN port
>     Enough CPU power to handle encoding/decoding all 24 T1 channels 
> to/from G.729a
> 
> Someone mentioned the mini-ITX systems, but there seemed to be a 
> concern about adequate CPU power for doing transcoding of more than 
> a few channels. 

There are P4-based Mini-ITX boards that should handle that just fine:

http://www.caseoutlet.com/shopexd.asp?id=207

I *love* the Mini-ITX format.  The VIA CPU leaves a lot to be desired 
performance-wise, but the format's nice.

Tim Massey