asterisk users - Mar 2005 - Physically Small Box Asterisk Systems

Looking for reccomendations for a physically small box configuration that will
do:
    Run Asterisk
    One T1 Card
    One LAN port
    Enough CPU power to handle encoding/decoding all 24 T1 channels to/from
G.729a

Someone mentioned the mini-ITX systems, but there seemed to be a concern about
adequate CPU power for doing transcoding of more than a few channels.

Thanks.

Jim

James H. Thompson
jht@lj.net
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Google this...:  site:lists.digium.com mini-itx
Lots of good info in the archive on this one...
 
Wiki
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+hardware+mini-itx
 
For some nice mini-itx hardware examples check out....
 
www.mini-itx.com
 
Also, you may consider Micro-ATX if you want to get a cube or small
footprint desktop system that is still AMD or Intel
Small Box is pretty relative...  8)
 
Wiley
 
 

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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Physically Small Box Asterisk Systems


Looking for reccomendations for a physically small box configuration
that will do:
    Run Asterisk
    One T1 Card
    One LAN port
    Enough CPU power to handle encoding/decoding all 24 T1 channels
to/from G.729a
 
Someone mentioned the mini-ITX systems, but there seemed to be a concern
about adequate CPU power for doing transcoding of more than a few
channels.  
 
Thanks.
 
Jim
 
James H. Thompson
jht@lj.net

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As someone else mentioned, mini-itx is the way to go.

 

One of the better motherboards you can get is the Via C3 series.  It's 1.0
ghz processor.  

 

I can think of 2 good suppliers for these:

 

www.idotpc.com <http://www.idotpc.com/>  and www.logicsupply.com
<http://www.logicsupply.com/> 

 

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Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Physically Small Box Asterisk Systems

 

Looking for reccomendations for a physically small box configuration that
will do:

    Run Asterisk

    One T1 Card

    One LAN port

    Enough CPU power to handle encoding/decoding all 24 T1 channels to/from
G.729a

 

Someone mentioned the mini-ITX systems, but there seemed to be a concern
about adequate CPU power for doing transcoding of more than a few channels.


 

Thanks.

 

Jim

 

James H. Thompson
jht@lj.net

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If you can hold off for another half month or so Via is introducing a new
board that will have a larger memory bus bandwidth.  That should help some.
They are also going to introduce a dual-processor mini-itx board due anytime
as I understand it.
 
-Nate
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As someone else mentioned, mini-itx is the way to go.

 

One of the better motherboards you can get is the Via C3 series.  It's 1.0
ghz processor.  

 

I can think of 2 good suppliers for these:

 

www.idotpc.com <http://www.idotpc.com/>  and www.logicsupply.com
<http://www.logicsupply.com/> 

 

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Thompson
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:46 PM
To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Physically Small Box Asterisk Systems

 

Looking for reccomendations for a physically small box configuration that
will do:

    Run Asterisk

    One T1 Card

    One LAN port

    Enough CPU power to handle encoding/decoding all 24 T1 channels to/from
G.729a

 

Someone mentioned the mini-ITX systems, but there seemed to be a concern
about adequate CPU power for doing transcoding of more than a few channels.


 

Thanks.

 

Jim

 

James H. Thompson
jht@lj.net <mailto:jht@lj.net> 

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On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, James H. Thompson wrote:
> Looking for reccomendations for a physically small box configuration that
will do:
>     Run Asterisk
>     One T1 Card
>     One LAN port
>     Enough CPU power to handle encoding/decoding all 24 T1 channels to/from
G.729a
> 
> Someone mentioned the mini-ITX systems, but there seemed to be a concern
> about adequate CPU power for doing transcoding of more than a few
> channels.
The "physically small" part is a bit vague. We are using a small 1U
rack
mountable computer, a Fujitsu Siemens RX100. Nice, relativly cheap, fast
and with a small footprint.

Peter

asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com wrote on 03/30/2005 01:46:10 PM:
> Looking for reccomendations for a physically small box configuration
> that will do:
>     Run Asterisk
>     One T1 Card
>     One LAN port
>     Enough CPU power to handle encoding/decoding all 24 T1 channels 
> to/from G.729a
> 
> Someone mentioned the mini-ITX systems, but there seemed to be a 
> concern about adequate CPU power for doing transcoding of more than 
> a few channels. 
There are P4-based Mini-ITX boards that should handle that just fine:

http://www.caseoutlet.com/shopexd.asp?id=207

I *love* the Mini-ITX format.  The VIA CPU leaves a lot to be desired 
performance-wise, but the format's nice.

Tim Massey