On 16/06/15 08:52, lu...@sulweb.org wrote: > Steve Edwards wrote: >> 0) I hope you mean you want to run Asterisk at home instead of >> 'Asterisk at Home.' A@H was an ancient distribution from around 2005. > > Yes of course I didn't mean an ancient distro from 2005. > >> >> 1) Rent a DID (a 'PSTN number') from a reputable SIP provider. This >> eliminates the need for a PCI/USB interface and you won't disrupt your >> 'business' while you figure out how to configure and test your >> Asterisk server. > > That's not possible in many areas here in Italy, including the place > where I live. The national Telco (Telecom Italia) owns the last mile > almost everyehere and other companies do not invest money to bring > their cables outside large cities. Telecom Italia does not offer data > only plans to private customers in rural areas. > >> 2) Ditch the 'room warmer' and find something really small and cheap >> to run. I live in San Diego and we pay $0.32 per kWh. I'd guess >> running your rig would cost me $50.00 to $100.00 per month just in >> electricity > > My rig is already running a bunch of other things and it must stay > powered for other reasons, so that's not an issue. However, your > suggestions made me consider your solution not for me, but for a > friend who is moving his office to a new place, hence the new subject > of this message. For him, the requisites would be quite similar to > what I need at home, except: > 1. the whole thing becomes mission critical, he obviously can't > accept random hangups of the telephony system at work > 2. the calls in a day raise to about 50, but he still has only one > POTS line with two numbers, one for voice and one for fax (ehm, yes, > in 2015 in Italy someone still uses the fax...). However the faxes > are rare and can be handled by the traditional fax machine he already > owns. > 3. I think he could actually move everything to SIP only, but I need > to double check that with him to be sure, so I assume a "no" here for > the time being > 4. He already has the server, even more powerful than mine (some dual > Xeon with 64GB of RAM and a bunch of Terabyes of RAID storage...) > 5. there are 20 phones in his office, instead of the 4 phones at my > home, but the model is the same (they all ring on incoming calls and > the 1st off hook takes the call, while the others can still make > internal calls) > > Now the question is: given the modified requirements above, is the linksys > spa3102 a reasonable solution? > > I realize this might not go down well with the mailing list/newsgroup here ;)
but have you considered a web-managed config-builder such as FreePBX? Instead of building your dialplan from scratch ? (I have 5 SIP trunks, 5-7 internal numbers, 1 queue (without IVR), 2 time conditions and 10-15 SIP devices, all handled fine with stable FreePBX v12 / Asterisk 11.x, on a ~2006 32-bit Celeron 2.6GHz with 1GB RAM and 150GB of RAID, queuing/handling/recording 4 concurrent incoming SIP calls without problems; [that's ONLY because I've only got that many queue members, not b/c it couldn't handle more] [and I don't run IVR because I've seen no need for it either]) (DISCLAIMER : I am in no way affiliated with FreePBX team or Sangoma, otherwise than just running one instance of FreePBX) el es -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users