asterisk users - Feb 2013 - Wierd question - Give me your opinion please

Client - Not for Profit in the Middle of the Jungle/Rain Forrest

Infrastructure - Datacenter is Non Climate Controlled, Prone to Flooding,
and has Sketchy Power, LAN - NEW Cabling in main Office building, Hodge
Podge of DYI wiring across remaining buildings. Phones - Total of about 50
extensions. Only about 25 - 30 phones will be IP phones, 20-30 more will
have to be analog due to the distance.

Analog Extensions will be on Digium TDM2400 or Sangoma A400 Cards.

Analog extensions WILL Hit a Surge Gate before the cards, and as much
precaution on grounding protection and power protection is being taken as
possible. The cards WILL BE PCI not PCI-e (They are being donated)

A New Dell Power-edge Server will be acquired for the PBX

HERE IS MY QUESTION....

Would you purchase a NEW TOWER Server with PCI slots to accommodate the
cards,

OR

Purchase a NEW RACK MOUNT server for the PBX, and Buy/Build a Cheaper
Server just for the analog extensions,


I'm torn... The ease of management of one server, or the
"isolation" of
analog extensions scattered through the jungle on it's own server.

Opinions?
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If you have the budget for two machines, run all services on one and keep
the other for a hot backup.  Rsync the configs nightly.  I'm guessing that
spare parts/repairs are far away from where you will be?


On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Jared Baxley <jared.baxley at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Client - Not for Profit in the Middle of the Jungle/Rain Forrest
>
> Infrastructure - Datacenter is Non Climate Controlled, Prone to Flooding,
> and has Sketchy Power, LAN - NEW Cabling in main Office building, Hodge
> Podge of DYI wiring across remaining buildings. Phones - Total of about 50
> extensions. Only about 25 - 30 phones will be IP phones, 20-30 more will
> have to be analog due to the distance.
>
> Analog Extensions will be on Digium TDM2400 or Sangoma A400 Cards.
>
> Analog extensions WILL Hit a Surge Gate before the cards, and as much
> precaution on grounding protection and power protection is being taken as
> possible. The cards WILL BE PCI not PCI-e (They are being donated)
>
> A New Dell Power-edge Server will be acquired for the PBX
>
> HERE IS MY QUESTION....
>
> Would you purchase a NEW TOWER Server with PCI slots to accommodate the
> cards,
>
> OR
>
> Purchase a NEW RACK MOUNT server for the PBX, and Buy/Build a Cheaper
> Server just for the analog extensions,
>
>
> I'm torn... The ease of management of one server, or the
"isolation" of
> analog extensions scattered through the jungle on it's own server.
>
> Opinions?
>
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At 08:11 PM 2/4/2013, you wrote:
>Would you purchase a NEW TOWER Server with PCI slots to accommodate the
cards,
>OR
>Purchase a NEW RACK MOUNT server for the PBX, and Buy/Build a 
>Cheaper Server just for the analog extensions,
Personally I think I'd purchase a number of used servers so if one 
dies, you have a backup or three. 25 lines does not need a modern 
processor and it seems silly to spend money for a warranty when you 
could spend less and have a number of spares.

I've used these to extend ethernet over phone lines.

http://www.startech.com/Networking-IO/Media-Converters/Ethernet-Extenders/10-100Mbps-VDSL2-Ethernet-LAN-Extender-Kit~110VDSLEXT

Ira

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Jared Baxley <jared.baxley at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Client - Not for Profit in the Middle of the Jungle/Rain Forrest
>
> Infrastructure - Datacenter is Non Climate Controlled, Prone to Flooding,
> and has Sketchy Power, LAN - NEW Cabling in main Office building, Hodge
> Podge of DYI wiring across remaining buildings. Phones - Total of about 50
> extensions. Only about 25 - 30 phones will be IP phones, 20-30 more will
> have to be analog due to the distance.
>
> Analog Extensions will be on Digium TDM2400 or Sangoma A400 Cards.
>
> Analog extensions WILL Hit a Surge Gate before the cards, and as much
> precaution on grounding protection and power protection is being taken as
> possible. The cards WILL BE PCI not PCI-e (They are being donated)
>
> A New Dell Power-edge Server will be acquired for the PBX
>
> HERE IS MY QUESTION....
>
> Would you purchase a NEW TOWER Server with PCI slots to accommodate the
> cards,
>
> OR
>
> Purchase a NEW RACK MOUNT server for the PBX, and Buy/Build a Cheaper
Server
> just for the analog extensions,
>
>
> I'm torn... The ease of management of one server, or the
"isolation" of
> analog extensions scattered through the jungle on it's own server.
>
> Opinions?
>
For that number of analog stations, I would go with tried and true
channel banks.  Adtran or Adit would be my personal choice.  I would
probably consider not even using any IP phones to keep things very
simple.

Thanks,
Steve T