asterisk users - Apr 2009 - Compact, fanless appliance?

Hello

For those SOHO customers (ie. at most, a couple of POTS/ISDN
connections and simultaneous SIP calls) who'd rather not use a big,
noisy PC to run Asterisk, I'd like to offer an alternative that has
the following features:

- not old hardware sold on eBay, ie. it must be up-to-date hardware
sold by a company currently in business
- compact, silent
- has room for a 2.5" hard-disk, but if not, must provide a
CompactFlash plug
- ideally, room for a PCI card, possibly laid down with a riser to
save space
- total cost (shipping + VAT) < 200 euro

If it's cheaper and not much work, I don't mind buying the parts and
putting the box together myself, but otherwise, I'd rather order a
complete box, ready-to-use.

What are my options to provide customers with that kind of solution?

Thank you for any hint.

> Hello
> 
> For those SOHO customers (ie. at most, a couple of POTS/ISDN
> connections and simultaneous SIP calls) who'd rather not use a big,
> noisy PC to run Asterisk, I'd like to offer an alternative that has
> the following features:
> 
> - not old hardware sold on eBay, ie. it must be up-to-date hardware
> sold by a company currently in business
> - compact, silent
> - has room for a 2.5" hard-disk, but if not, must provide a
> CompactFlash plug
> - ideally, room for a PCI card, possibly laid down with a riser to
> save space
> - total cost (shipping + VAT) < 200 euro
> 
> If it's cheaper and not much work, I don't mind buying the parts
and
> putting the box together myself, but otherwise, I'd rather order a
> complete box, ready-to-use.
> 
> What are my options to provide customers with that kind of solution?
> 
> Thank you for any hint.
Can you give us some clues as to why you have disqualified the fanless 
and/or embedded devices that are normally recommended on the list 
(Soekris, etc)?

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance
[and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on
e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many
apples.

Hi,

Although not ?fanless? appliance, (what is your concern about a fan?) you
could take a look at PIKA Warp, which runs Asterisk and FreePBX,  Digium GUI
or any other you are interested in.  It supports up to 32 simultaneous
calls.

http://pikawarp.org/ or
http://www.pikatechnologies.com/english/View.asp?x=652


Best Regards


-- 
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Paulo

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Vincent <vincent.delporte at
bigfoot.com>wrote:
> Hello
>
> For those SOHO customers (ie. at most, a couple of POTS/ISDN
> connections and simultaneous SIP calls) who'd rather not use a big,
> noisy PC to run Asterisk, I'd like to offer an alternative that has
> the following features:
>
> - not old hardware sold on eBay, ie. it must be up-to-date hardware
> sold by a company currently in business
> - compact, silent
> - has room for a 2.5" hard-disk, but if not, must provide a
> CompactFlash plug
> - ideally, room for a PCI card, possibly laid down with a riser to
> save space
> - total cost (shipping + VAT) < 200 euro
>
> If it's cheaper and not much work, I don't mind buying the parts
and
> putting the box together myself, but otherwise, I'd rather order a
> complete box, ready-to-use.
>
> What are my options to provide customers with that kind of solution?
>
> Thank you for any hint.
>
>
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On Wed, 6 May 2009 12:17:44 +0200, randulo <spamsucks2005 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>Those reading the thread amy be interested in Askozia pbx
>http://www.askozia.com/pbx/
Thanks for the link.