asterisk users - Nov 2009 - hardware requirements for asterisk

hello friends
 friend i had just finished my chapters of asterisk. ill be
configuring asterisk in for home for r/d purpose. i am having p4 machine
with 1 GB RAM, ill be configuring asterisk on centos 5.3, the only doubt
which i am having is which hardware ill have to buy to configure asterisk.
i think analog card ? plz clear my doubt. n be with me from beginning till
end, of the journey of asterisk. 
Regards,
Pawan
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asterisk at opensourcesolution.in wrote:
> hello friends
>  friend i had just finished my chapters of asterisk. ill be configuring 
> asterisk in for home for r/d purpose.  i am having p4 machine with 1 GB 
> RAM, ill be configuring asterisk on centos 5.3, the only doubt which i 
> am having is  which hardware ill have to buy to configure asterisk. i 
> think analog card ? plz clear my doubt. n be with me from beginning till 
> end, of the journey of asterisk.
Depending on what you intend to accomplish, you may not need any 
additional hardware;  you do not need PSTN connectivity to use 
Asterisk.  If you want it anyway, you can get PSTN origination (calls 
from the PSTN->VoIP) and termination (VoIP->PSTN) over IP without any 
need for physical lines.

If you have a fixed analog line and are determined to interface it 
with Asterisk, you would need an FXO card.  TDM hardware that 
interfaces with T1/E1 circuits (ISDN PRI, typically) is also available.

-- Alex

-- 
Alex Balashov - Principal
Evariste Systems
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On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 09:37 +0000, asterisk at opensourcesolution.in
wrote:
> hello friends
>  friend i had just finished my chapters of asterisk. ill be
> configuring asterisk in for home for r/d purpose.  i am having p4
> machine with 1 GB RAM, ill be configuring asterisk on centos 5.3, the
> only doubt which i am having is  which hardware ill have to buy to
> configure asterisk. i think analog card ? plz clear my doubt. n be
> with me from beginning till end, of the journey of asterisk. 
> Regards,
> Pawan
Hi Pawan,

It vey much depend on what you expect the box to be handling....
As you wrote: soho + R&D, i presume it will be anoccasional call.

Personally, i would recommend to leave the analogue stuff out of your
PC. (no hassle with pci-slots, shared-IRQ's, PSU, ....)
Leave the handling of analogue-parts to an ATA-box.
Linksys (and others) are making those at reasonable prices (Cheaper than
an analogue card)

hw