[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk hardware for new office suggestion

[kevin ling]

Hi,

We setup a HP DL360G2 (Xeon 2.8*2, 2G RAM)server & Digium TE110P (E1 PRI to
telco) for a small office. Include 70 IPF-3000 phone in office & 10 phones
on another warehouse. Between the office and warehouse we use the G.SHDSL in
bridege mode to connect each other. I suggest you can setup a small lab to
test the autoprovision on the phone. Include the config file and firmware
upgrade. E.g, The ipf-3000 can download the config files & new firmare from
the tftp server. But this phone always waiting user to press '1'  for
upgrade new firmware. It's to hard to upgarde 80 phones. So only 1 model
phone for office and test the autoprovision functions.

Regards,
Kevin 

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[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Simone
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:56 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Asterisk hardware for new office suggestion

I want to thank you for the suggestions. The office is in the UK, so
probably we will go for the ISDN30. I am trying to get a SDSL 2mbit for the
line so that bandwidth should not be a problem, the internal LAN will be
Gbit as said so the QoS as suggested will be only on the firewall (linux). I
have lowered expenses for other equipment so I was thinking of buying a Dell
1800 or 2800 server 2x2,8Ghz 2gb ram to set up Asterisk, know this is a big
server but they'll use the ISDN lines and VoIP so virtually there could be
20/25 simultaneous calls.  I'll  have a look at the wiki and the phones
suggested, we'd definitely like phones with internal ethernet switch and PoE
capable, I'll try to get an idea of what could work for us.

Thanks again
Simone

Tim Panton wrote:

>
> On 14 Apr 2006, at 11:29, Simone wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>> I am in the process of setting up Asterisk for a new office and since 
>> this is going to be my first "real" installation I'd appreciate some 
>> advice on the hardware from the real world. We will have 8 channels 
>> (still not sure if 4xISDN2 or ISDN30 8 channels,  but I will 
>> definitely go for a Digium card with echo hw  cancelation) and a DSL 
>> 2mbit line (QoS on the switch and  firewall?), to be configured for 
>> both traditional and VoIP usage .  I was looking at the Xorcom
>> TS-1 server and I was wondering if you  would recommend it for a 30 
>> employees office or if you'd rather  build it on a "normal" server 
>> (would a double PIII 1Ghz be enough),  and also if you could give a 
>> suggestion on the phones (we will get  an HP Gbit switch PoE).
>> Thanks, any hint really appreciated
>>
>> Simone
>
>
> I can only base my advice on what we have done for a smaller office.
>
> If you want 8 lines it is probably as cheap to go for ISDN 30 as for 
> 4xBRI at least it is here in the UK.
>
> We have a single span E1 card from digium without echo can in a small 
> 1U rack mounted server
> (spec: 1Ghz Via processor and  512Mb ram). The Via might be a bit 
> underpowered for 30 users, but unless you are transcoding, virtually 
> any modern processor would be fine for 8 lines.
>
> You need to look out on the DSL line if it is ADSL, since they have 
> low upstream bandwidth.
> Heavy outgoing mail messages (eg attachments sent to distribution
> lists) can easily fill the outgoing
> (256kbit/s) pipe degrading the voice quality.
>
> I'm very fond of the SNOM phones - elmeg are selling the old SNOM 190 
> model which is a decent office phone. For 30 you should be able to get 
> them for less than £70 each.
> I've got 6 - 4 SNOMs and 2 elmegs - No problems with any of them, but 
> they don't support PoE, so you may want to look at other models.
>
> Don't underestimate how much training/doc you will need to provide to 
> get people going on the new system.
> They may have been using the old one for years and written little 
> cribsheets about how to transfer etc.
>
>
>
> Tim Panton
> tim at mexuar.com
>
>
>
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