asterisk users - Dec 2005 - Small / embedded system recommendations

I know it's been asked before, but this area moves rapidly.

Would anyone have recommendations for a small or embedded system 
suitable for running Asterisk on? Ideally, we'd like two boxes:

- One using compact flash, and is fanless, with rapid booting.

- One with a hard disk for voicemail, call recording, etc.

Preferably they would be capable of bridging 60 calls Zap-Zap or 
Zap-SIP, but we're willing to consider less powerful systems. The 
ability to take a single Digium card is desirable.

Being able to run MySQL, Apache, and SER as well are essential, as it's 
for our upcoming "ITSP in an office" product, which uses these
heavily.

Speaking of which, this is moving forward. It will have all the end 
customer features of ITSP in a box 
(http://integrics.com/products/itsp/), but not billing, resellers, 
affiliates, calling cards, etc. We'll be looking for resellers, probably 
second quarter next year. If you're interested, feel free to email us, 
but we don't have much information yet, so will respond with a canned 
email for now. More information to follow.

-- 
Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
+44 (0)7870 699 479
http://integrics.com/

> Would anyone have recommendations for a small or embedded 
> system suitable for running Asterisk on? Ideally, we'd like two boxes:
> - One using compact flash, and is fanless, with rapid booting.
> - One with a hard disk for voicemail, call recording, etc.
> Preferably they would be capable of bridging 60 calls Zap-Zap 
> or Zap-SIP, but we're willing to consider less powerful 
> systems. The ability to take a single Digium card is desirable.
We've recently ordered a pair of these:
http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm

Which have a standard PCI slot into which I'm hoping a TDM card will work.
Their Belgian distributor (kd85.com) appears to have a nice range of
expanded cases that might (hopefully) take a TDM card. I'll find out when
they arrive I guess.

I'm not sure whether a 266Mhz processor would stand a hope in hell of
running 60 calls though - I'll leave that one for someone else to answer.
Fortunately our requirement is only for 4-6 concurrent calls.

Regards,

Chris
-- 
C.M. Bagnall, Director, Minotaur I.T. Limited
This email is made from 100% recycled electrons

I use a net4801 with astlinux. works great, but I run it at home with 3
phones.

I did some research before buying the net4801. Was looking at low power
(watts) fanless embedded systems. One dealer I talked with suggested I look
at this company: http://www.diamondsystems.com/

I have thought to buy the Morpheus board, to see what it would do with the
additional power.
http://www.diamondsystems.com/products/morpheus

When I talked to a rep at diamond, it seems that the price was something
like $350USD... I could easily be wrong. It seems like a good option, but I
have no hands on expirence. (I am NOT an employee of Diamond Systems)

Kristian, interested in the Morpheus for development of Astlinux?

JR

On 12/11/05, Alistair Cunningham <acunningham@integrics.com>
wrote:
>
> I know it's been asked before, but this area moves rapidly.
>
> Would anyone have recommendations for a small or embedded system
> suitable for running Asterisk on? Ideally, we'd like two boxes:
>
> - One using compact flash, and is fanless, with rapid booting.
>
> - One with a hard disk for voicemail, call recording, etc.
>
> Preferably they would be capable of bridging 60 calls Zap-Zap or
> Zap-SIP, but we're willing to consider less powerful systems. The
> ability to take a single Digium card is desirable.
>
> Being able to run MySQL, Apache, and SER as well are essential, as it's
> for our upcoming "ITSP in an office" product, which uses these
heavily.
>
> Speaking of which, this is moving forward. It will have all the end
> customer features of ITSP in a box
> (http://integrics.com/products/itsp/), but not billing, resellers,
> affiliates, calling cards, etc. We'll be looking for resellers,
probably
> second quarter next year. If you're interested, feel free to email us,
> but we don't have much information yet, so will respond with a canned
> email for now. More information to follow.
>
> --
> Alistair Cunningham,
> Integrics Ltd,
> +44 (0)7870 699 479
> http://integrics.com/
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