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color=#0000ff size=2>We ship multiple Dell servers every week. Haven't tested
the new cards but generally you're fine with Digium T1 if you limit yourself to
one card per server. When we are less than T1, we use an external SIP
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color=#0000ff size=2>Redundency depends on your attitude towards cost and risk.
If you have bandwidth and the expertise to have the servers fail over to one
another, your servers can provide redundency if you use an n+1 strategy. If the
servers need to stand on their own, you are replacing very expensive Nortel with
very cheap hardware so why stint on an extra $300 power supply and RAID
1?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Joe
Pukepail<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 01, 2005 5:32 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
asterisk-users@lists.digium.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Asterisk-Users] server
hardware<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I was wondering what the concusses is for building a server for asterisk,
we are looking at installing it in about 7 locations (all within an hour of each
other). I prefer Dell servers, but have seen there is some incompatibility
with digium hardware. ( <A
href="http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=compatibility">http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=compatibility</A>),
anyone have any results using Dell servers? <BR> <BR>Also what are
the opinions as far as redundancy, should I go full bore with dual power
supplies, hardware raid, RHEL, etc? Looking at our existing phone
system (nortel and norstar), they do not have redundant power supplies and the
voicemail harddrive isn't raid'ed, would definately be cheaper to go with a
regular PC and Fedora (and keep a spare one on the shelf), just curious what
others have done.. </DIV><BR>
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