Greetings, I am new to Asterisk and would like some suggestions on hardware requirements for a bundled multiservice solution- We would like to offer bundled voice/data services to Internet clients using VoIP and Asterisk. We would probably bring in a PRI T1 from the PSTN to connect to a Asterisk box with a dual/quad T1 card. A second box would provide voice mail access. Does anyone know of any good voice mail/autoattendant software for linux which is open source that supports VoIP? Idealy- this box would be dedicated for voice mail only and not need any FXO ports as all call handling would be done with VoIP or similar. Does Asterisk support voice mail and/or auto-attendant yet? Next would be a service termination point for clients. For new clients, using a box with Asterisk and a few FXS ports (as needed) should be fine. We can take care of handing the QOS of VoIP on their service to ensure top-quality voice services over their existing IP. Some of our clients would use the FXS card which can be inserted in to their existing cisco 2600's, so compatibility between the Cisco and Asterisk box would be required. In addition, we would like to provision serveral FXS ports as a outsourced PBX system for new clients with a t1 channel bank or similar. This way, we can simply insert to the existing analog system(s) without any special IP Phones, etc. We would also, obviously, like to provision PRI T1's directly to clients from the service termination points. When we lite a building, a Asterisk box would be included which can support the provisioning of PRI circuits to clients, utilizing the existing IP infastructure to deploy the new voice services. One last thing- how does Asterisk support '911'/emergency bypass on-site for a remote asterisk deployment? Would the asterisk box just need a FXO port and POTS line plugged in to it? What kind of configuration considerations would need to take place for that? So - I am just wondering if Asterisk will do the above, and what kind of hardware is recommended by the users for PRI (which support FXO and FXS), and the hardware required for any 911 bypass stuff. How does provisioning with Asterisk work for multi-user support? Is everything stored in .conf files, or can it read from a database, etc? Does Asterisk need to be restarted or reloaded or instructed to re-read changed .conf files? If some action to reload .conf files *is* required, what are the side-effects of such action? Do calls get interrupted or put on hold or anything? Does Asterisk support RADIUS Accounting or any other Accounting method (mainly to track long distance and local usage - stats are HUGE for us)? What kind of maintenance does a Asterisk box typically require? Any special log/file or process management required? I know this is a rather large list of questions- I thank everyone in advance who has read this far or who take a few minutes to try and answer one or two or all of them :) Thanks! Brad