[Asterisk-Users] what are the elements of a good asterisk setup?

[Tyler Retzlaff]

Good day!

so I've inherited an Asterisk PBX setup and it's busting my ass.   
Since the setup wasn't document
and is not running on our standard operating environment I have to  
say it is an ad-hoc / experiment
which has become critical infrastructure for the company and is now  
considered a risk.

Because of this there is a need to rebuild and (this time) properly  
document the setup, at the same
time I would like to replace some elements that give me headaches  
(such as passive ISDN cards).


Requirements for the new system:

+ Our standard operating environment for this type of thing is the  
Fedora Core 5 Linux distribution
    currently running kernel 2.6.16.  This is non-negotiable and  
probably means regardless of the
    hardware chosen binary drivers won't be available (thats okay I'm  
prepared to build from source).

+ I have not yet selected ISDN cards for the new system.  My only  
requirements are that I would like
    to use Active card(s) and I need to accommodate 2 x BRI TE/PTP  
services.  I'm happy to use one
    card or a pair of cards but whatever the case the device drivers  
must be stable/mature.  I don't
    want to be debugging driver code / kernel panics (like I am now  
grrr).

So can anyone make recommendations?  Are there other issues I should  
be considering? Any
and all advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your time.

Tyler