asterisk users - Jun 2006 - what are the elements of a good asterisk setup?

Good day!

so I've inherited an Asterisk PBX setup and it's busting my ass.   
Since the setup wasn't document
and is not running on our standard operating environment I have to  
say it is an ad-hoc / experiment
which has become critical infrastructure for the company and is now  
considered a risk.

Because of this there is a need to rebuild and (this time) properly  
document the setup, at the same
time I would like to replace some elements that give me headaches  
(such as passive ISDN cards).


Requirements for the new system:

+ Our standard operating environment for this type of thing is the  
Fedora Core 5 Linux distribution
    currently running kernel 2.6.16.  This is non-negotiable and  
probably means regardless of the
    hardware chosen binary drivers won't be available (thats okay I'm  
prepared to build from source).

+ I have not yet selected ISDN cards for the new system.  My only  
requirements are that I would like
    to use Active card(s) and I need to accommodate 2 x BRI TE/PTP  
services.  I'm happy to use one
    card or a pair of cards but whatever the case the device drivers  
must be stable/mature.  I don't
    want to be debugging driver code / kernel panics (like I am now  
grrr).

So can anyone make recommendations?  Are there other issues I should  
be considering? Any
and all advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for your time.

Tyler

Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
>    to use Active card(s) and I need to accommodate 2 x BRI TE/PTP 
> services.  
I'm devoted to Eicon Diva 4-BRI cards: They're expensive, but they have 
onboard DSPs and Echo Cancellation, which is awesome. Also, great Linux 
driver support and chan_capi-cm support for Asterisk. The source driver 
set from Melware will happily compile on Fedora Core (I use CentOS myself).

cYa,
Avi


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