[asterisk-users] Hardware suggestions

[Mike]

> You can reliably run asterisk on just about any x86 hardware.  You don't
> mention what kind of stresses you are going to put on it, so your sizing
> questions are impossible to answer.  How many extensions?  How many
> simultaneous calls?  Will you be transcoding?  Routing to/from the PSTN?
> What cards will you be putting in the box?  Some cards don't play nicely
> together if forced to share interrupts, for example.


I wasn't worried about sizing (let's imagine that this is more than enough
for now and less than I'll need later).  More about whether this was the
right BRAND more than the right hardware. Does HP make Asterisk friendly
hardware? I know Dells was problems a few years back.

As for CPU, the question is mostly one about more GHz or more cores? Dual
cores are cheaper by GHz. What`s best for Asterisk?

I am doing only SIP to SIP calls.  Some transcoding (half calls are G711 to
G729, the other half are G729 both ways).

[snip]

> I'm shooting from the hip here, but I don't think dual CPU gives you
redundancy.  If one chip fries I am pretty sure the machine will crash.

This was sort of a question disguised as a statement.  Can a CPUs function
when it's neighbour is fried?

Mike