Hi All, I have done some research on Asterisk and I would like to try it in my office. Here's what I'm looking at for my system: AsteriskNow running one of two ways: 1) As a virtual machine on a VMWare server (Eight core Xeon server with 4GB ram) 2) on a P4 2.4Ghz with 768mb RAM I'm looking at 4-5 phones in the office. I was going to go with Grandstream or Polycom phones but I've heard people have had some issues with that. The Aastra 51i seems to be a good choice. I'd eventually like to link my Asterisk installation with my CRM, so the XML capabilities of the 51i should come in handy. I'm going to use SIP Trunking through Bandwidth.com with 2-3 SIP trunks. I'd like to know what more experienced users think of this setup, and if anyone has had any experience with either the 51i phones or the Bandwidth.com service. Also, has anyone had problems using a fax machine (either computer or paper) with Asterisk? Thank you in advance for your input! Regards, Zaheer K. Master President, Adamant Security Inc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20071012/216d30e2/attachment.htm
Hi Zaheer, Go the standalone machine. It will save you time and effort. Regards, Dean Collins Cognation Pty Ltd dean at cognation.net <mailto:dean at cognation.net> +1-212-203-4357 Ph +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). ________________________________ From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Zaheer Master Sent: Friday, 12 October 2007 10:05 AM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk System Setup Question Hi All, I have done some research on Asterisk and I would like to try it in my office. Here's what I'm looking at for my system: AsteriskNow running one of two ways: 1) As a virtual machine on a VMWare server (Eight core Xeon server with 4GB ram) 2) on a P4 2.4Ghz with 768mb RAM I'm looking at 4-5 phones in the office. I was going to go with Grandstream or Polycom phones but I've heard people have had some issues with that. The Aastra 51i seems to be a good choice. I'd eventually like to link my Asterisk installation with my CRM, so the XML capabilities of the 51i should come in handy. I'm going to use SIP Trunking through Bandwidth.com with 2-3 SIP trunks. I'd like to know what more experienced users think of this setup, and if anyone has had any experience with either the 51i phones or the Bandwidth.com service. Also, has anyone had problems using a fax machine (either computer or paper) with Asterisk? Thank you in advance for your input! Regards, Zaheer K. Master President, Adamant Security Inc. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20071012/6ef623de/attachment.htm
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2007-Oct-12 16:10 UTC
[asterisk-users] Asterisk System Setup Question
Zaheer Master wrote:> > AsteriskNow running one of two ways: > > 1) As a virtual machine on a VMWare server (Eight core Xeon server > with 4GB > > ram) >You wouldn't be able to add TDM cards to this scenario if you wanted to down the line, as vmware can't access the hardware installed in a box.