[Asterisk-Users] Hardware Capacity/Configuration

[Daniel Salama]

I know this is a frequent topic on the list. Sorry if this creates more 
bandwidth but I couldn't get my specific answer from neither the wiki 
nor searching the list.

I've read that a P4 3GHz+ should be sufficient to handle a 4 T1s on a 
single CPU machine. I am setting up a proof of concept machine but I 
was only able to get a P4 1.6GHz machine. If this machine is only going 
to be "forwarding" the calls to another, much more powerful, Asterisk 
machine which will handle more demanding call processing rules, 
scripts, Monitoring, etc, do you think this CPU will be able to handle 
the 4 T1s? Will it handle 3? 2? 1? Efficiently, of course.

The idea is to setup a basic VoIP gateway whose only intelligence will 
be to forward ALL incoming calls to another Asterisk box using IAX as 
well as placing outbound calls through the T1s from other Asterisk 
boxes communicating using IAX.

Comments?

Thanks,
Daniel