How well do you think asterisk could run on a miniITX board like the ones linked below with the call volume of say a small doctors office or something? http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.15/.f - Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061229/638e4426/attachment.htm
On 12/29/06, Mark Greene <markgreene@gmail.com> wrote:> How well do you think asterisk could run on a miniITX board like the ones > linked below with the call volume of say a small doctors office or > something? > > http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.15/.f > > - MarkI can get around 15-20 simultaneous SIP-2-SIP calls with no transcoding on a VIA EPIA-V 1.0 GHz, so it really depends on how many simultaneous calls you require and if there will be any transcoding involved. Regards, David
Mark Greene wrote:> How well do you think asterisk could run on a miniITX board like the > ones linked below with the call volume of say a small doctors office > or something? > > http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.15/.f > <http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.15/.f>Mark, I've been playing around with HP Thin Client's as of late. These units can be had quite cheaply off of ebaY. Upgrading the memory and replacing the ROM boot chip (Uses standard 44pin/44pin laptop connector) and adding a PCI riser card, would make a wonderful office PBX. This is what I've found on ebaY today: http://cgi.ebay.com/279B-HP-THIN-CLIENT-370450-002_W0QQitemZ150074535639QQihZ005QQcategoryZ11221QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Doug, This is a great price but I have a couple questions, as I am not very savy with these systems. When you say, replace the ROM chip, what do you mean by that? Replace it with another ROM chip, and how would I go about learning to program one, etc. As for the PCI riser card, I do not see that there would be room or even a slot for a pci card in the system you linked. to. My last and most important question is, can an 800 mhz chip handle much of a load at all for asterisk once you put a PRI or FXO/S card in? I would love to pursue this. Thanks, - Mark -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061229/afe60df7/attachment.htm
On Friday 29 December 2006 14:46, Mark Greene wrote:> How well do you think asterisk could run on a miniITX board like the ones > linked below with the call volume of say a small doctors office or > something? > > http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.15/.f > > - MarkHave you looked at AstLinux? It's perfect for small form-factor boxes. The hardware should do what you want, provided you're not doing a lot of transcoding. http://www.astlinux.org/ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder Linux geek and random computer tamer check out my Linux Cookbook! http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxckbk/ best book for sysadmins and power users ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Mark Greene wrote:> How well do you think asterisk could run on a miniITX board like the ones > linked below with the call volume of say a small doctors office or > something? > > http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.15/.fI have a lot of installations using this board: http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=90 The key thing is to compile asterisk for a i586. This is vitally important, as the VIA processor on those boards is lacking some MMX instructions that asterisk uses. 20 calls aren't an issue here. Transcoding is. You *really* don't want to be using speex or ilbc here! Here is the output of a show translation recalc 30 on one of these: g723 gsm ulaw alaw g726 adpcm slin lpc10 g729 speex ilbc g723 - - - - - - - - - - - gsm - - 4 4 12 4 3 20 - - 72 ulaw - 7 - 1 10 2 1 18 - - 70 alaw - 7 1 - 10 2 1 18 - - 70 g726 - 14 9 9 - 9 8 25 - - 77 adpcm - 7 2 2 10 - 1 18 - - 70 slin - 6 1 1 9 1 - 17 - - 69 lpc10 - 17 12 12 20 12 11 - - - 80 g729 - - - - - - - - - - - speex - - - - - - - - - - - ilbc - 18 13 13 21 13 12 29 - - - Gordon
Doug Lytle wrote:> C F wrote: > >> Gordon, how did you get such good numbers? >> >> model name : VIA Esther processor 1200MHz >> cpu MHz : 399.054 >> > Is this accurate? A 1200mhz cpu running at 399? Under clocked? >Maybe it is intentionally underclocked to run without a cpu fan.