We have a number of clients who will be needing a server to host Asterisk on. Many of these clients use analog (FXO) lines that will need to be connected to Asterisk via Sangoma cards. Can anyone recommend an industry-standard server (like IBM, Dell, HP, etc.) that has enough open PCI slots to handle up to six of the Sangoma cards? We would like to be able to tell the customer to just go purchase this model server from this manufacturer and it will work. Suggestions? Thank you! Joe Dennick
How many analog lines are you looking at? Hundreds? PaulH On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 17:22 -0600, Joe Dennick wrote:> We have a number of clients who will be needing a server to host > Asterisk on. Many of these clients use analog (FXO) lines that will > need to be connected to Asterisk via Sangoma cards. Can anyone > recommend an industry-standard server (like IBM, Dell, HP, etc.) that > has enough open PCI slots to handle up to six of the Sangoma cards? We > would like to be able to tell the customer to just go purchase this > model server from this manufacturer and it will work. Suggestions? > > Thank you! > > Joe Dennick > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Like Carlos said, the SuperMicro are very good servers, however I don't have a VAR I could recommend on those, as I assume you don't want to put them together. I'll also recommend Tyan, we use some of their 1U gear and its been working flawlessly, but again no VAR to recommend as we build them inhouse. FWIW Sun Microsystems uses the same Tyan motherboards in some of their Opteron servers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061031/22f5618b/attachment.htm
Joe While having done this before I am rather unhappy with current offerings. A 4U or bigger HP DL5XX for example will run you upwards of 10k. While they are some nice machines I am currently building my own. You may want to contact Rhino about there new servers, I feel that they are filling a niche that their customers have asked for. http://www.rhinoequipment.com/ Andrew On 10/30/06, Joe Dennick <joe@dennick.net> wrote:> We have a number of clients who will be needing a server to host > Asterisk on. Many of these clients use analog (FXO) lines that will > need to be connected to Asterisk via Sangoma cards. Can anyone > recommend an industry-standard server (like IBM, Dell, HP, etc.) that > has enough open PCI slots to handle up to six of the Sangoma cards? We > would like to be able to tell the customer to just go purchase this > model server from this manufacturer and it will work. Suggestions? > > Thank you! > > Joe Dennick > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-- --- Andrew Latham - AKA: LATHAMA (lay-th-ham-eh) lathama@lathama.com - lathama@gmail.com If any of the above are down we have bigger problems than my email! Hind sight is most always 20/20 or better. ---