<div>Sorry to disagree, but unless you are transcoding or have a significant AGI IVR or something, that server should be just fine. While I prefer a bigger server for most installs, it is not because it is needed, more of a, money well spent kind of thing.
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<div>If you are transcoding and have an IVR, the picture is diferent.</div>
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<div>The box I have been using is the Dell 1850 with SCSI RAID. May be overkill for most applications, but it was under $2,000 so it made sense to me.</div>
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<div>Richard<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nora Lavelle</b> <<a href="mailto:nora@silverspringnet.com">nora@silverspringnet.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Hi Dovid,<br><br>Thank you for the book. I'm already reading it.<br><br>I have a dell 650 server, 1Gig of memory, 1 CPU (
3.07Ghz). What<br>hardware would you recommend for the 200 users w/ about 20 concurrent<br>calls ?<br><br>As always I thank you so much for your help.<br><br>Nora Lavelle<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">
asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a><br>[mailto:<a href="mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com">asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com</a>] On Behalf Of Dovid<br>Bender<br>Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:02 PM
<br>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion<br>Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk vs. Traditional PBX<br><br>I think your problem is the Dell 650. What are the<br>specs on it ? If you want a system that can support
<br>200 users you will need to do a lot better than that.<br>Also you will be dealing with T1's/E1's and not POTS<br>lines. I think a good place to start (if you havent<br>already) is the book that has come out a while back. I
<br>have it on my server at <a href="http://www.h6315.com/ast_book/">http://www.h6315.com/ast_book/</a><br><br>Regards,<br>Dovid<br>(I posted my server and not from the publisher becuase<br>I do not know thier URL and I have email access only
<br>now.)<br><br>--- Nora Lavelle <<a href="mailto:nora@silverspringnet.com">nora@silverspringnet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>><br>> Hi everyone !<br>><br>> So here's my question of the day ! I need to make a
<br>> decision on whether or not to go to a voip solution<br>> or configure an existing pbx (norstar) that my<br>> company has available. We are a small startup. I'm<br>> wanting a solution that will support up to about 200
<br>> people, with direct dial-in capability, up to about<br>> 30 concurrent phone calls and good voice quality.<br>> Right now I have an asterisk deployment with about<br>> 15 people on it. We have sipura 841 phones. The
<br>> biggest issue currently is voice quality. lot of<br>> complaints there. I have a dell 650 poweredge<br>> (single processory system), with a digium tdm400<br>> card and 4 analog lines plugged into it.<br>
><br>> So here are my questions:<br>><br>> * Is asterisk a good solution for my company ? or<br>> should I just install the traditional pbx and look<br>> to move to asterisk in a couple of years ? (I<br>
> personally would prefer asterisk cuz I'm a unix<br>> person not a phone person so from a manageability<br>> perspective i would love this )<br>><br>> * If I were to go to an asterisk solution to support<br>
> about 200 people with the requirements above what<br>> hardware platform would you recommend ? I'm<br>> guessing I'd need a PRI line and a different digium<br>> card? Also would a 1cpu poweredge dell be enough ?
<br>> or would that have to be upgraded too ?<br>><br>> If anyone is running an environment similar to this<br>> that can provide help I would really appreciate<br>> this. I'm having a hard time making this decision
<br>> and would love to hear anybody's experience in a<br>> real time environment.<br>><br>> Thanks again this list ROCKS!<br>> Nora Lavelle<br>><br>><br>> > _______________________________________________
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