To determine what you are going to need, you'll want to start by discussing what you plan to do with the system, including capacity (e.g. number of users/extensions, types of calls, etc.). I'd suggest some research, starting with the following resources which have a lot of good background, theory, as well as real-world experiences from other users:
<br><br> <a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+dimensioning">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+dimensioning</a><br> <a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware+recommendations">
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware+recommendations</a><br> <a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware#PCServerMotherboards">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+hardware#PCServerMotherboards
</a><br><br>There are also off-the-shelf appliance style solutions or you can build your own:<br><br> <a href="http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+embedded+systems">http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+embedded+systems
</a><br> <a href="http://www.rowetel.com/ucasterisk/store.html">http://www.rowetel.com/ucasterisk/store.html</a><br> <a href="http://www.digium.com/en/products/appliance/">http://www.digium.com/en/products/appliance/</a>
<br><br>-jr<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 7, 2007 2:56 AM, Kim Joung-il <<a href="mailto:kimjoungil@yahoo.com">kimjoungil@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre>Hello,<br><br>We're about to deploy an Asterisk system.<br>So far we have the following (below) configuration<br>but before we start anything we would like to hear some<br>suggestions on it, specification or recommendation too...
<br><br>Thank you!<br><br>miniITX board<br>dual core CPU<br>2 LAN<br>1x IDE (or more)<br>2x SATA (or more)<br>2x PCI slots (must work with Linux correctly in regards to IRQs)<br><br>Optional:<br>On board hardware RAID<br>
miniPCI<br>CF slot<br>IPMI interface<br></pre><br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Josh Richards - Grover Beach, California US<br><a href="mailto:josh.t.richards@gmail.com">josh.t.richards@gmail.com</a> (don't forget the middle 't' initial when writing)
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