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hi,<br>
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Interesting boxes - I might get one of these myself for playing around
with....<br>
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A 266 Mhz CPU is far more capable than you actually think and I have
been running 500 ports on a 300 Mhz PII earlier...BUT, I did not use
passive Digium boards.<br>
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The Digium boards are CPU intensive for 2 main reasons: (1) they have a
very low buffer on the bus forcing an interrupt far to often, and (2)
they need things like echo cancel and dtmf to run on the host computer.<br>
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Maybe you can handle 4-6 calls ??? But, you can definitly handle 60
calls with echo cancel & dtmf 'as is'. I would go for a Dell 1U
mahine (they cost from 400.- GBP) or if you insist on using these chose
an intelligent board to off-load the host.<br>
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jvb<br>
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Chris Bagnall wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Would anyone have recommendations for a small or embedded
system suitable for running Asterisk on? Ideally, we'd like two boxes:
- One using compact flash, and is fanless, with rapid booting.
- One with a hard disk for voicemail, call recording, etc.
Preferably they would be capable of bridging 60 calls Zap-Zap
or Zap-SIP, but we're willing to consider less powerful
systems. The ability to take a single Digium card is desirable.
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We've recently ordered a pair of these:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm">http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm</a>
Which have a standard PCI slot into which I'm hoping a TDM card will work.
Their Belgian distributor (kd85.com) appears to have a nice range of
expanded cases that might (hopefully) take a TDM card. I'll find out when
they arrive I guess.
I'm not sure whether a 266Mhz processor would stand a hope in hell of
running 60 calls though - I'll leave that one for someone else to answer.
Fortunately our requirement is only for 4-6 concurrent calls.
Regards,
Chris
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