[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Soekris

[Kristian Kielhofner]

Dustin Wildes wrote:
> Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> 
>> I thought I saw a Soekris embedded in the Digium booth photos, can you 
>> run
>> Asterisk on one of these? How? I'd be interested in it for a back pbx, 
>> given
>> the reliability. In fact, might want to move my home pbx to this also.
>>
>> Chris Mason
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> If I'm not mistaken, the Soekris hardware does fine for a few voice 
> channels - but not a very high performance piece of hardware.  For 
> example, if you wanted a full solution as a VPN, Asterisk server, media 
> streaming via ICEs, web server, email server, etc...  it will start to 
> lack in performace when compared to a VIA EDEN system which can use DDR 
> memory and such.

Of course it would start to lack in performance!  You'd have to be CRAZY 
to run all of that on a fanless $220 SBC!

Like anything else, the Soekris is not an end-all, be-all solution.  It 
does however, work surprisingly well in a lot of different applications 
and I am routinely impressed when I hear what people are doing with them 
(and AstLinux). :)

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Kristian Kielhofner