[asterisk-users] asterisk on mini-itx

[voiplist]

How many simultaneous calls will this device support and with which
codecs/transcoding?

Do you sell the hardware stand-alone without your software so we can
load our own version of Asterisk/Gui?



On 3/12/07, Ioan Biris <ioan at allo.com> wrote:
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>   We have done exactly that … fan less , VIA processor ,  flash card ,
> firewall.
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> http://www.allo.com/products/micropbx.php
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>    We sell wholesale.
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> Ioan at allo.com
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> Hello,
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>  I'm trying to put together a low cost - low powers PBX appliance for
> several customers. I have purchased a couple of the soekris net4801 boards
> and have asterisk up and running on them fine but they just don't quite cut
> it in the processing power department. I've been able to get about 10
> simultaneous SIP calls with simple ulaw (no encoding decoding). While this
> might be OK for a very small business or home I just don't think it leaves a
> lot of overhead to do anything else.
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>  I've had a look around and I think I have settled on one of the VIA EPIA
> fanless boards. Does anyone have any experience with these running asterisk
> as far as performance and reliability is concerned? Has anyone run asterisk
> with any compressed codecs on this setup?
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>  I am going to TRY to run the system from flash memory one way or another -
> I realize the hoops I might have to jump through to prevent a large number
> of read/write cycles but I'd really like to have the whole thing solid
> state... Maybe someone has a better idea regarding program storage?
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>  Also, I would really like to run this as a router/firewall appliance as
> well so that that the box can sit on a public IP if the client only has one.
> For this reason I kind of have my heart set on openbsd. The routing and
> firewall utilities on openbsd are very simple to configure and easy to use.
> Does anyone know what limitations asterisk might have on openbsd (besides
> lack of zaptel.. ) ? I have run asterisk 1.2.? on openbsd before and found
> it worked pretty well.
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>  Failing that I suppose I would settle for running the routing/firewalling
> on linux. I've just found the linux networking tools very awkward up until
> now - perhaps someone know of a linux distribution - or tool  - that makes
> routing/firewall/NAT as painless as on openbsd? Maybe I just need to sit
> down for a day and learn the tool properly ;)
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>  Anyways,
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>  I know there are  a lot of questions in here but perhaps someone has done
> one or all of these things?
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>  Thanks for any advice or warnings!
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>  Steve Glaus
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