asterisk users - May 2004 - recommended hardware for quad E1 system

Hi All,    

Could anyone tell me which is the recommended hardware to a system 
running voicemail and conference, attending four E1 trunks and, 
another, attending only one E1?

Can I use a PIII 850Mhz?

Thanks in advance.

Robert Almeida
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On Mon, 17 May 2004, Robert Almeida waxed:
> Could anyone tell me which is the recommended hardware to a system 
> running voicemail and conference, attending four E1 trunks and, 
> another, attending only one E1?
> 
> Can I use a PIII 850Mhz?
Maybe for a single port E1 card, maybe.  You'll definitely
have problems with 4 trunks, voicemail, conference, etc., on
a P3.  Need at least a P4 for all of that.  Maybe dual if
you are doing lots of codec translation.  If you are really
going to put asterisk to work with 120 lines, buy the
fastest box your budget will allow, 1 gig ram, SCSI, the
works.

If you've already got the P3, then by all means, try that
out first before spending your money.  You have to buy the
card either way.  Might as well test your configs on that.

--Chris


-- 
Chris Maj, Rochester
cmaj_at_freedomcorpse_dot_com
Pronunciation Guide: Maj == May

Thanks Chris, but I will use only voicemail and conference, I think that
is better 4 Pentium III boxes that one dual pentium box only. Do you
think that it can attend 30 channels?

regards

Robert Almeida

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:23, Robert Almeida wrote:
> > Could anyone tell me which is the recommended hardware to a system 
> > running voicemail and conference, attending four E1 trunks and, 
> > another, attending only one E1?
> > 
> > Can I use a PIII 850Mhz?
> 
> Maybe for a single port E1 card, maybe.  You'll definitely
> have problems with 4 trunks, voicemail, conference, etc., on
> a P3.  Need at least a P4 for all of that.  Maybe dual if
> you are doing lots of codec translation.  If you are really
> going to put asterisk to work with 120 lines, buy the
> fastest box your budget will allow, 1 gig ram, SCSI, the
> works.
> 
> If you've already got the P3, then by all means, try that
> out first before spending your money.  You have to buy the
> card either way.  Might as well test your configs on that.
> 
> --Chris
                             Robert Almeida
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