[asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

[Chris Bagnall]

Actually, the Atom seems to be surprisingly powerful. We have a couple of 
Atom boxes with transcoding and conferences enabled without issue. I 
wouldn't pretend it'll cope with hundreds of conference participants, but 
with ~10 or so it seems to be fine.

Likewise with transcoding - we've only really tested up to ~30 channels with 
G.711 to GSM, not any of the "heavier CPU workload" translations (e.g. iLBC 
or G.729).

For a small to medium office (e.g. 30 extensions, 10 concurrent calls) it 
works fine, even with a little conferencing and transcoding.

Regards,

Chris