[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Soekris

[Adam Goryachev]

> > If I'm not mistaken, the Soekris hardware does fine for a few voice 
> > channels - but not a very high performance piece of hardware.  For 
> > example, if you wanted a full solution as a VPN, Asterisk server, media 
> > streaming via ICEs, web server, email server, etc...  it will start to 
> > lack in performace when compared to a VIA EDEN system which can use DDR 
> > memory and such.
> 
> Of course it would start to lack in performance!  You'd have to be CRAZY 
> to run all of that on a fanless $220 SBC!
> 
> Like anything else, the Soekris is not an end-all, be-all solution.  It 
> does however, work surprisingly well in a lot of different applications 
> and I am routinely impressed when I hear what people are doing with them 
> (and AstLinux). :)

I'm starting a project in the near future, and am have seen the question
raised on the list, but no answer yet.. so 2 questions...

How many channels could this board deal with when purely translating
from G.729 IAX2 <-> G.729 SIP....

ie, is there a codec translation included in that step, or is it
optimised such that you just change the 'headers' ?? Could you do 10 or
even 20 such calls ?? Basically the idea would be to use this box to
convert those annoying but decent business phones from SIP to IAX2 with
trunking....

If it works well, would probably also look at utilising it for QoS/DHCP
and FTP (to config the phones) but that's about it....

Regards,
Adam