That is up to you. I have never really looked at the pluses. Personally, it is not for me, especially if you have to do a bit of tweaking.
Thanks, Steve On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Tarek Sawah <tareksa...@hotmail.com> wrote: > do you suggest buying a licensed Software from Digium? > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 18:53:16 -0400 > From: stot...@asteriskhelpdesk.com > To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Asterisk and E1 Cards > > > > > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Tarek Sawah <tareksa...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Greetings List, > > > Greetings > > > i have a new question regarding Asterisk and E1 Cards > a client of mine is requiring an Asterisk Server with 2 E1s. > the scenario is the following > they want 400 extensions to register with the system.. and required 64 > concurrent calls. > > > Unless I am mistaking, or you are including internal calls, 2 E1 would > handle 62 or 60 if PRI. 400 extensions should be no problem. On the same > LAN? > > > added to it that they are expecting the system to have an IVR to do some DB > querying. > the setup I have in mind is a Core2duo Server with 3 GB Ram and a Raid0 and > a TE220B card. > > > Hard to say which would be better, two lower spec (cheaper) boxen setup > identically, one as a cold swap. Backup DB, conf, and whatever, nightly. I > have done this for many customers. > > RAID 0 is basically useless for Asterisk and sets yourself up for double > chance of disk failure. RAID 1 is the way to go. > > > > we have not faced this need from a client as we usually provide SIP > Services only.. so my questions are the following > 1- how many calls my setup will be able to handle? and if it won't handle 2 > E1s what is the best server i can get for that? > > > You can handle that easily unless you are doing heavy codecs like G729 or > recording every call. > > > > 2- E1 supports Ulaw and Alaw codecs so we won't be needing G729 nor G723 > encoding and decoding? or we will have to use such codecs? (I'm concirned > about the System resources) > > > You should have said that first ;) A pentium 4 2.8ghz could handle this > without breaking a sweat. > > > Thank you in Advance for your help and support. > regards > Tarek > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Steve Totaro > +18887771888 (Toll Free) > +12409381212 (Cell) > +12024369784 (Skype) > > ------------------------------ > Get free photo software from Windows Live Click > here.<http://www.windowslive.com/online/photos?ocid=PID23393::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:SI_PH_software:082009> > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > -- Thanks, Steve Totaro +18887771888 (Toll Free) +12409381212 (Cell) +12024369784 (Skype)
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