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Does anyone know of a way to simulate the signaling of a PRI trunk for testing/setup purposes? I realize this may be a rather naive question, but I was wondering if you could take a TE110, for example, and using a crossover cable (or not?) and some means of emulating the NI2 signaling protocol connect it to another TE110 on another machine to test and verify an installation before the telco

I'm thinking of placing Asterisk on an itx motherboard in a tiny case. The ITX motherboards top out around 400Mhz PII (in terms of power relative to a desktop). How much CPU would I need for an office of 50 people? How much disk storage for voicemail + OS? (typical / average) The system will have no PCI cards (no Digium FSO/FXO cards) - everything over the LAN connection. Thanks,