[asterisk-users] New Pico-ITX

[Steve Totaro]

Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Dean Collins wrote:
>
>   
>> Powerful enough to run a small asterisk server though not sure if the
>> drop down in size from a mini-atx or a micro-atx but I'm sure someone
>> will try.
>>
>> http://www.geek.com/first-look-via-px10000-pico-itx-motherboard
>>     
>
> That's pretty impressive!
>
> I'm sure it will run linux+asterisk just fine with a 1GHz Via C7 processor 
> as there are many platforms out there using that combination (or the Via 
> C3)
>
> The issue that I've had (and I guess other small developers) is putting a 
> motherboard in a "pretty" case so that it doesn't look like a PC when you 
> turn it round...
>
> The other thing is that some people just don't believe it - I did a demo 
> for someone with my "usual" box - pizza box style with a micro ATX board 
> (VIA C3, 1GHz, fanless) and they couldn't believe it would handle the 35 
> extensions their current box handles - which takes up 6U of a rack. (My 
> unit would have been in a 2U rack case for them, but they were still very 
> skeptical!)
>
> Gordon
>
>   

Just point them to the specs on a 3Com V3000.  1U and I think 200 
extensions without having to add anything to it.  Obviously, four FXO 
ports will not do much good for 200 extensions though.

Thanks,
Steve