[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on Dell blade servers

[Mike Fedyk]

Matt Riddell wrote:

>Alistair Cunningham wrote:
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>>We've been asked to quote for a large cluster running Asterisk and our
>>ITSP in a box product. The system will be SIP throughout, with mixed
>>codecs.
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>>We're considering using Dell blade servers, 1855 or similar, on the
>>grounds that we normally use Dell machines and they work well, but we
>>need higher rack density.
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>>Has anyone used these? Any feedback on whether they're
>>good/bad/indifferent? What scalability do you get on simple SIP-SIP
>>forwarding either with or without RTP passing through Asterisk?
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>I would instead recommend the SuperMicro 1U servers - we have had a really
>great run with these.
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Do you use Opteron or Intel?