[asterisk-users] Asterisk System Setup Question

[Baji Panchumarti]

 Zaheer,

 this post did show up on the 11th, I am guessing few
 people have attempted this, hence no feedback.

 -baji.

--

  On 10/11/07, Zaheer Master wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have done some research on Asterisk and I would like to try it in my
> office. Here's what I'm looking at for my system:
>
> AsteriskNow running one of two ways:
> 1) As a virtual machine on a VMWare server (Eight core Xeon server with 4GB
> ram)
> 2) on a P4 2.4Ghz with 768mb RAM
>
> I'm looking at 4-5 phones in the office. I was going to go with Grandstream
> or Polycom phones but I've heard people have had some issues with that. The
> Aastra 51i seems to be a good choice. I'd eventually like to link my
> Asterisk installation with my CRM, so the XML capabilities of the 51i should
> come in handy.
>
> I'm going to use SIP Trunking through Bandwidth.com with 2-3 SIP trunks.
>
> I'd like to know what more experienced users think of this setup, and if
> anyone has had any experience with either the 51i phones or the
> Bandwidth.com service. Also, has anyone had problems using a fax machine
> (either computer or paper) with Asterisk?
>
> Thank you in advance for your input!
>
> Regards,
> Zaheer K. Master

--