[asterisk-users] Yes it is a dimensioning question! Atom CPU

[Gordon Henderson]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, jmillican at sentinelcommunications.com wrote:

> I am looking for pros and cons on the Intel Atom cpu.  Has anybody been using
> these in production?  I am looking at an Atom D510 (dual core 1.6GHz, 1M cache)
> to run maybe 25 to 30 extensions, 4 or 5 calls at once(maybe as high as 7
> simultaneous calls), g729 all the way through except voicemail will be wav
> format for email purposes(requirement).  I will be tying 3 of these together to
> route calls between different offices.  What are the gotcha?s and ?things to
> think about? that you may have seen in your deployments.  Haven?t decided
> between latest 1.4 or 1.6 yet, probably 1.6.
> Thank you for any words of wisdom you may wish to share.
> JohnM

I can do that on my mobile phone, so you will have no issues doing that on 
an Atom. I use Atoms for VoIP/Asterisk servers. I have some with dozens 
times more than you're trying to achieve.

(very highly tuned and not an off the shelft type installation, but that's 
just me)

Get fanless board if you can. 1GB of RAM is fine if you're not running a 
GUI on it.

Gordon