[asterisk-users] How big is *your* dialplan??

[Andrew Kohlsmith]

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 17:56, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> I have no data to prove it, but isn't the time between failures on this
> type of TDM PBX equipment far better than a commodity server? Do they have
> any moving parts? A server has moving parts, and moving parts fail.

Norstar's voicemail system uses a hard drive.  Their agent and queuing system 
runs an embedded OS/2 PC.  They used to have a Flash-based voicemail system 
but they've phased that out years ago.

Also keep in mind that if you buy the cheapest PC equipment you're likely 
going to run into trouble, just as you predict.  However I have servers here 
(not brand-name expensive stuff either, just decent components) which have 
uptimes higher than my Norstar KSU, which tends to lose a trunk card every 
year or so.

> We have our servers power supplies sourced from different plants, with a
> generator etc, but we aren't an SMB. :)

Yes, but not everyone plans quite the way you do.  :-)

-A.