[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk hardware for new office suggestion

[Kevin Bockman]

Simone wrote:
> 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.

That is way overkill for only asterisk and even 4 T1/E1, if there is no 
transcoding.  If so, I have no idea.


Kevin