Re: [asterisk-biz] hdwr v. sftwr v. no echo cancellation

[Sergey Tamkovich]

Mark wrote:
> Definitely buy hardware echo cancellation, the time and credibility 
> savings are worth the cost.
Yeah yeah, i've heard the same about Asterisk vs CCM - 4 years ago.

>  
> Mark
>
> On Feb 6, 2008 7:21 AM, Sergey Tamkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote:
>
> Matt wrote:
> > DEFINITELY use hardware echo canc... otherwise you may be upset with
> > the quality of some calls.
> >
> OSLEC looks very promising.
>
> > On Feb 5, 2008 1:22 PM, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> > >> wrote:
> >
> > Dear List,
> >
> > As we bring up * and migrate from the legacy PBX, its important
> > for my management to experience good quality voice.  Question is
> > whether to use Digium's hardware echo cancellation, Digium's
> > software echo cancellation, or no echo cancellation, on the
> 8 port
> > FXO card (Digium TDM800P) I am thinking of using during the
> > initial turnup and migration.  Recommendation?
> >
> > Thanks!
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[asterisk-biz] hdwr v. sftwr v. no echo cancellation

[Chris Langford]

Sorry about the last post. This one might be easier to read.

Actually, 
I 
would 
agree that most 
of 
the 
time h/w is the best option, 
but 
for 
8 
or 
less 
channels 
that 
you 
will 
be 
using 
with 
Digium's 
TDM800P either 
choice 
would 
work. 
The 
main 
consideration 
is 
the 
amount 
of 
CPU 
power 
that 
your 
system 
has. 
The 
hardware 
echo 
cancellation 
module 
and 
the 
HPEC 
(High 
Performance 
Echo 
Cancellation) 
software 
use 
the 
same 
algorithm. 
Either 
way 
you 
will 
be 
using 
the 
same 
AT&T 
certified, 
toll-quality, 
G.168 
compliant 
echo 
canceller. 
The 
main 
reason 
to 
use 
the 
VPMADT032 
h/w 
based 
solution 
is 
because 
it 
is 
immune 
from 
any 
system 
CPU 
spikes 
that 
might 
otherwise 
affect 
a 
software-based 
solution.


  

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Re: [asterisk-biz] ThirdLane PBX Manager & GUI for * (Sigma Networks)

[Justin Newman]

>John, I've been a reseller of PBX Manager for 3+ years and it goes out 
>on every installation.

I've been pretty happy with Jim's ThirdLane setup. Runs smoothly and easy to 
maintain.

Justin


  

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[asterisk-biz] hdwr v. sftwr v. no echo cancellation

[Chris Langford]

f>Matt 
wrote:

>> 
DEFINITELY 
use 
hardware 
echo 
canc... 
otherwise 
you 
may 
be 
upset 
with 

>> 
the 
quality 
of 
some 
calls.



Actually, 
I 
would 
agree 
with 
you 
most 
of 
the 
time, 
but 
for 
8 
or 
less 
channels 
that 
you 
will 
be 
using 
with 
Digium's 
TDM800P 
either 
choice 
would 
work. 
The 
main 
consideration 
is 
the 
amount 
of 
CPU 
power 
that 
your 
system 
has. 
The 
hardware 
echo 
cancellation 
module 
and 
the 
HPEC 
(High 
Performance 
Echo 
Cancellation) 
software 
use 
the 
same 
algorithm. 
Either 
way 
you 
will 
be 
using 
the 
same 
AT&T 
certified, 
toll-quality, 
G.168 
compliant 
echo 
canceller. 
The 
main 
reason 
to 
use 
the 
VPMADT032 
h/w 
based 
solution 
is 
because 
it 
is 
immune 
from 
any 
system 
CPU 
spikes 
that 
might 
otherwise 
affect 
a 
software-based 
solution.








  
  
  

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a 
thing.  
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page. 
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[asterisk-biz] HK IDAP using CR13

[Si Tai Fan]

Has anyone successfully connected to the Hong Kong T1 IDAP from PCCW 
which uses the *CR13*? I am able to use the Digium cards but I can only 
make outgoing calls through it. The incoming calls don't work. The CLI 
show that the calls do come in but returns with a '0'.


The same thing for the NEC pabx's that are used in HK. They seem to have 
the same CR13 enabled to their T1 cards. I heard from one NEC agent that 
the HK version of NEC does not support any other protocol except CR13 
for their IDAP connection as well. I find the same problem when 
connecting to their system with Asterisk over T1 IDAP.



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Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3C

[Steve Totaro]

On Feb 5, 2008 11:45 AM, Ron Joffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:22, Bob Pierce wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:55 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
> > > I would go after RAID 5 and redundant power supplies.
> >
> > I totally agree on the RAID 5 and redundant power supplies. It would be
> > irresponsible not to get these.
>
> Dual power supplies are standard, and we do run Raid 1 (Hardware) on the two
> internal drives.
>
> As Drew mentioned Raid 5 is a non starter for true reliable applications. As
> drive sizes have increased, rebuild times for a failed drive have also
> increased, leaving you wide open to a catastrophic loss of data should one
> more disk fail during the rebuild process.
>
> As far as the overall specs, we really don't need more then a single dual core
> proc and 2 GB of Ram, but when you can get dual quads and 8 GB for a few
> hundred more (or less when at the right time) why not. We have been Dell
> resellers for a while, and when they have deals, we can get some ridiculous
> prices.
>
> Ron

I like HP much more than Dell but that is just me.  I like the DL380
with nice 36.4gig SCSI drives, I guess with six bays, you could do
RAID 5 + 1 or whatever mirrored RAID 5 is called.

I was a Dell reseller but often found offers MUCH cheaper to buy as
directly as an end user from their site.  It became really annoying to
contact my rep, get a quote, give it the client. and then get a call
back from the client that they priced it out online for significantly
less.

I guess that is why they call it a VAR program, you have to add some
value.  Not sure how you do that in this crowd.

Tell me what this ridiculous price is for the model and specs you are
quoting above.  Let's see how much I can configure it for online or
from the Dell Outlet.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

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Re: [asterisk-biz] hdwr v. sftwr v. no echo cancellation

[Mark]

Definitely buy hardware echo cancellation, the time and credibility savings
are worth the cost.

Mark

On Feb 6, 2008 7:21 AM, Sergey Tamkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Matt wrote:
> > DEFINITELY use hardware echo canc... otherwise you may be upset with
> > the quality of some calls.
> >
> OSLEC looks very promising.
>
> > On Feb 5, 2008 1:22 PM, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > wrote:
> >
> > Dear List,
> >
> > As we bring up * and migrate from the legacy PBX, its important
> > for my management to experience good quality voice.  Question is
> > whether to use Digium's hardware echo cancellation, Digium's
> > software echo cancellation, or no echo cancellation, on the 8 port
> > FXO card (Digium TDM800P) I am thinking of using during the
> > initial turnup and migration.  Recommendation?
> >
> > Thanks!
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Session Border Controller

[Craig Guy]

Hi, I am using OpenSBC with some success. - www.opensourcesip.com

Documentation is incomplete, however it is easy to use.

Craig

-Original Message-
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Subject: [asterisk-biz] Session Border Controller

Any one using one of those on their VOIP network ? Experience with and 
without ?

Thanks for sharing !

Gondar

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Re: [asterisk-biz] hdwr v. sftwr v. no echo cancellation

[Sergey Tamkovich]

Matt wrote:
> DEFINITELY use hardware echo canc... otherwise you may be upset with 
> the quality of some calls.
>
OSLEC looks very promising.

> On Feb 5, 2008 1:22 PM, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>  
> As we bring up * and migrate from the legacy PBX, its important
> for my management to experience good quality voice.  Question is
> whether to use Digium's hardware echo cancellation, Digium's
> software echo cancellation, or no echo cancellation, on the 8 port
> FXO card (Digium TDM800P) I am thinking of using during the
> initial turnup and migration.  Recommendation? 
>  
> Thanks!
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Re: [asterisk-biz] hdwr v. sftwr v. no echo cancellation

[Matt]

DEFINITELY use hardware echo canc... otherwise you may be upset with the
quality of some calls.

On Feb 5, 2008 1:22 PM, John Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> As we bring up * and migrate from the legacy PBX, its important for my
> management to experience good quality voice.  Question is whether to use
> Digium's hardware echo cancellation, Digium's software echo cancellation, or
> no echo cancellation, on the 8 port FXO card (Digium TDM800P) I am thinking
> of using during the initial turnup and migration.  Recommendation?
>
> Thanks!
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[asterisk-biz] hdwr v. sftwr v. no echo cancellation

[John Williams]

Dear List,

As we bring up * and migrate from the legacy PBX, its important for my
management to experience good quality voice.  Question is whether to use
Digium's hardware echo cancellation, Digium's software echo cancellation, or
no echo cancellation, on the 8 port FXO card (Digium TDM800P) I am thinking
of using during the initial turnup and migration.  Recommendation?

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Re: [asterisk-biz] ThirdLane PBX Manager & GUI for *

[Sigma Networks]

John, I've been a reseller of PBX Manager for 3+ years and it goes out 
on every installation.


For us the key is that PBXM is designed to allow for easy customization 
via the script library so that even simple modifications are easy to 
follow and maintain.  So our typical approach is to meet with the 
customer, determine requirements, implement their requests and then turn 
the working system over to them.


In addition the Bulk Provisioning feature allows you to import a 
spreadsheet to create the initial set of extensions.


Also, phone provisioning/new user add is a breeze.

Our end users like it to maintain the system over the life of the system.

We're vary much in the open source camp.*BE is an additional cost 
which it appears that the primary benefit is access to Digium for support.


Feel free to contact me on/off list if you like.

Regards,
Jim Sturtevant
ph: 408-701-9929


John Williams wrote:


Dear List:  Many thanks in advance for your input:

Question 1:  Does anyone have experience with "Thirdlane PBX Manager 
and GUI" for * open source builds and * Business Edition?
   http://www.abptech.com/products/thirdlane/  
   I am considering this to give our install techs and 
clients an easier installation & management interface.


Question 2:Are there any more established, proven, equivalent 
alternatives to this Thirdlane product


Question 3:In practical terms, what am I giving up by going with 
an open source build v. *BE?  How much risk is involved?
 
Thanks!



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Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3CO

[Ron Joffe]

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:22, Bob Pierce wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:55 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
> > I would go after RAID 5 and redundant power supplies.
>
> I totally agree on the RAID 5 and redundant power supplies. It would be
> irresponsible not to get these.

Dual power supplies are standard, and we do run Raid 1 (Hardware) on the two 
internal drives. 

As Drew mentioned Raid 5 is a non starter for true reliable applications. As 
drive sizes have increased, rebuild times for a failed drive have also 
increased, leaving you wide open to a catastrophic loss of data should one 
more disk fail during the rebuild process. 

As far as the overall specs, we really don't need more then a single dual core 
proc and 2 GB of Ram, but when you can get dual quads and 8 GB for a few 
hundred more (or less when at the right time) why not. We have been Dell 
resellers for a while, and when they have deals, we can get some ridiculous 
prices.

Ron



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Re: [asterisk-biz] Asterisk Business Edition

[Dwayne Hubbard]

Mitul Limbani wrote:
> Quoting Sergey Tamkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>   
>> Is it true that ABE supports Dialogic boards? If yes, what else ABE
>> supports what normal Asterisk doesn't?
>> 
>
> Not entirely true, coz I didnt find the driver files in my ABE pack :)
> Well I might have to contact Digium to find out regarding the same.
>   
chan_dialogic is not distributed with any version of Business Edition, 
but if you really need it you may want to express your interest via 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> But I guess ABE is outdated compared to the GPL Stable which has more 
> features coming in, just that Digium provides a surity that ABE wont 
> break and if it would, they would provide support to fix it ASAP. Apart 
> from that they provide IP Indemnity to the licensees (just as Novell 
> did for SuSE Linux)
>   
ABE version B is based on the 1.2 release branch of Asterisk. Version C 
is based on the 1.4 release branch but also includes select 
functionality from trunk.

regards,
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Session Border Controller

[Gondar Monn]

Thanks for the info about freeswitch, but what is the point of having a 
SBC bundled ? Isn't it better to have it on a separate box ?

Gondar

Dome Charoenyost wrote:
> Please try http://www.opensourcesip.org:8080/clearspacex/community/opensbc
>
> Dome C.
>
> On 2/5/08, Mitul Limbani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Gondar,
>>
>> You might as well be interested to know that FreeSwitch has SBC
>> functionality (as i look into their Spec Sheet on Wiki) I havent tried
>> it yet, but shall start exploring it soon.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Mitul Limbani,
>> Founder & CEO,
>> Enterux Solutions,
>> The Enterprise Linux Company (TM),
>> www.enterux.com
>>
>> Quoting Gondar Monn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
>> 
>>> Any one using one of those on their VOIP network ? Experience with and
>>> without ?
>>>
>>> Thanks for sharing !
>>>
>>> Gondar
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3CO

[asterisk_help]

> I forgot to agree wholeheartedly on the redundant power supplies. Our 
> in-house Asterisk would have gone down a couple of times last year if not for 
> those. Once a failed P/S and once a tripped-over power cord! RAIPS 1 perhaps?

And I would add that you must MONITOR YOUR RAID too.  I've seen too many 
systems where the customer has raid and is running on one drive without 
seeing the failure.

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Re: [asterisk-biz] Session Border Controller

[Gondar Monn]

... :-) No I am not from Ethiopia although I have a fascination for that
place ... and yes, I know about Gondar 
Thank you for your offer to help, I was curious about how many people
actually use it, and the benefit they got from that ...

Thanks

Gondar

Mike Yoon wrote:
> Hi Gondar,
>
> Are you from Ethiopia?
> There is a province in Ethiopia called Gondar.
>
> I have a good experience about SBC.
> I will try my best to share the idea about SBC with you.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.
>
> > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:37:17 -0800
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com
> > Subject: [asterisk-biz] Session Border Controller
> >
> > Any one using one of those on their VOIP network ? Experience with and
> > without ?
> >
> > Thanks for sharing !
> >
> > Gondar
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3CO

[Drew Gibson]

Bob Pierce wrote:

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:18 -0500, Drew Gibson wrote:
  

Sorry to disagree, but RAID 1 would be far more responsible than RAID
5.



No need to apologize, Drew. I think you make some valid points here. I
only wanted to state that I believe redundancy of disk and redundancy of
PS are important.

Bob

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Thanks Bob,

I forgot to agree wholeheartedly on the redundant power supplies. Our 
in-house Asterisk would have gone down a couple of times last year if 
not for those. Once a failed P/S and once a tripped-over power cord! 
RAIPS 1 perhaps? :-)


regards,

Drew

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Re: [asterisk-biz] ThirdLane PBX Manager & GUI for *

[Alistair Cunningham]

John,

Please see our commercial Enswitch product. It's in production today 
with carriers worldwide, from hundreds of users on single machines to 
over 100,000 users and thousands of concurrent calls on 
redundant/failover clusters. It has full multi-tenant hosted PBX and 
ITSP features, billing, payment, invoicing, multi-level resellers, etc. 
A full list of features is at:

http://integrics.com/products/enswitch/features/

More details, including a working demo of the web interface, are at:

http://integrics.com/products/enswitch/

The next version is likely to support ABE as well as GPL Asterisk.

Alistair Cunningham
+1 888 468 3111
+44 20 799 39 799
sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://integrics.com/


John Williams wrote:
> Dear List:  Many thanks in advance for your input:
> 
> Question 1:  Does anyone have experience with "Thirdlane PBX Manager and
> GUI" for * open source builds and * Business Edition?
>http://www.abptech.com/products/thirdlane/
>I am considering this to give our install techs and
> clients an easier installation & management interface.
> Question 2:Are there any more established, proven, equivalent
> alternatives to this Thirdlane product
> 
> Question 3:In practical terms, what am I giving up by going with an open
> source build v. *BE?  How much risk is involved?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[asterisk-biz] ThirdLane PBX Manager & GUI for *

[John Williams]

Dear List:  Many thanks in advance for your input:

Question 1:  Does anyone have experience with "Thirdlane PBX Manager and
GUI" for * open source builds and * Business Edition?
   http://www.abptech.com/products/thirdlane/
   I am considering this to give our install techs and
clients an easier installation & management interface.
Question 2:Are there any more established, proven, equivalent
alternatives to this Thirdlane product

Question 3:In practical terms, what am I giving up by going with an open
source build v. *BE?  How much risk is involved?

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Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3CO

[Bob Pierce]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:18 -0500, Drew Gibson wrote:
> Sorry to disagree, but RAID 1 would be far more responsible than RAID
> 5.

No need to apologize, Drew. I think you make some valid points here. I
only wanted to state that I believe redundancy of disk and redundancy of
PS are important.

Bob

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Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3CO

[Drew Gibson]

Bob Pierce wrote:

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:55 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
  

I would go after RAID 5 and redundant power supplies.




I totally agree on the RAID 5 and redundant power supplies. It would be
irresponsible not to get these.

Bob

  


Sorry to disagree, but RAID 1 would be far more responsible than RAID 5.

RAID 1 is for critical data and gives better protection at a higher 
cost. RAID 5 is for cheaper, bulk storage of less critical information. 
In addition, RAID 5 has lower performance and higher failure rate (more 
disks = more failures) than RAID 1.


Asterisk's disk storage is critical to the operation of a critical 
system and does not, generally speaking, require large amounts of 
storage. In fact, you would be hard pushed to find drives _small_enough_ 
to be right-sized for Asterisk!


Best practice would be OS and Asterisk on RAID 1 and, if you have a very 
high volume system (or you're into debug in a big way!), add some RAID 5 
for logging, recording, etc..


You'll be amazed how much quicker and easier it is to recover from a 
disk failure when the OS is still running.


I have seen several instances where a single drive in a RAID 5 set has 
suffered electrical failure and corrupted (or convinced the controller 
that it has corrupted) multiple, otherwise good, drives on the bus. Even 
taken out a hotspare at the same time. Think of it has an electrical 
fart onto the bus. I have yet to see the same thing happen with RAID 1. 
(and don't even think about asking how long I've been watching systems 
fail!) :-)


RAID 5 is great in it's place but why buy 3 drives when 2 will get you a 
better result?


regards,

Drew






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Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3CO

[Bob Pierce]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 08:55 -0500, Steve Totaro wrote:
> I would go after RAID 5 and redundant power supplies.
> 

I totally agree on the RAID 5 and redundant power supplies. It would be
irresponsible not to get these.

Bob

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Re: [asterisk-biz] Session Border Controller

[Mike Yoon]

Hi Gondar,
 
Are you from Ethiopia?
There is a province in Ethiopia called Gondar.
 
I have a good experience about SBC.
I will try my best to share the idea about SBC with you.
 
Thanks,
Mike.> Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:37:17 -0800> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 
asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com> Subject: [asterisk-biz] Session Border 
Controller> > Any one using one of those on their VOIP network ? Experience 
with and > without ?> > Thanks for sharing !> > Gondar> > 
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3CO

[Steve Totaro]

On Feb 4, 2008 10:00 AM, Ron Joffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008 09:04, John Williams wrote:
> > --  Dell is our preferred PC vendor.  Can anyone recommend, based on actual
> > experience, a Dell PC model for *, and 48 concurrent calls?  (The Dell
> > recommended models on the Wiki are out of date)
>
> Our current spec for an IVR based platform is:
>
> Dell 2950
>   Dual Quad Procs (2.33Ghz)
>   8GB Ram
>   Dual 146GB 15K SAS Drives
>
> This easily handles 96 calls (Quad PRI) utilizing dual TE200B's.
>
> We have 10 of these identical systems in production. I would be happy to help
> you with pricing as we are a dell reseller.
>
> Ron

Specs are certainly way overkill.

I would go after RAID 5 and redundant power supplies.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

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Re: [asterisk-biz] Paranoia, Dell & 3COM

[Ron Joffe]

On Tuesday 05 February 2008 00:50, John Williams wrote:
> - Hard Drive Size for open source * or *BE?
You can't find a small enough hard drive :). But seriously, in our case it 
depends on the amount of online message recording that we want to keep. We 
utilize 146GB SAS drives in a Raid 1.

> -  # of Gps Ethernet ports  (1 or 2? )  (I noticed one poster using one
> port for incoming calls and 2nd port for outgoing calls)

2950 comes with 2 gigE ports on board.

> - Any value to 4 GB Ram?
Memory has gone down so far in price recently, that we spec all of our servers 
with 8GB.

> - How many PCI slots in this beast?
2950 has two separate riser slots. We configure slot 1 with PCIe and slot 2 
with 2 PCIe. But you can also get PCI-X as well.


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Re: [asterisk-biz] How to Protect SIP server from flood. ?

[Trixter aka Bret McDanel]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 11:13 +0700, Dome Charoenyost wrote:
> My customer want to do PC to PC voip service and they ask about cheap
> solution for Protect SIP Server from flood. I think about Snort
> Inline. If sommone have any idea please let's me know.
> 
> 
> Best Regards.
> 
> Dome C.
> 

You can always try something like this
http://www.0xdecafbad.com/index.php/2007/01/27/voipsip-dos-mitigation


Although it depends on variable factors, this is probably the cheapest
solution since it could be on the same box.
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Session Border Controller

[Dome Charoenyost]

Please try http://www.opensourcesip.org:8080/clearspacex/community/opensbc

Dome C.

On 2/5/08, Mitul Limbani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gondar,
>
> You might as well be interested to know that FreeSwitch has SBC
> functionality (as i look into their Spec Sheet on Wiki) I havent tried
> it yet, but shall start exploring it soon.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Mitul Limbani,
> Founder & CEO,
> Enterux Solutions,
> The Enterprise Linux Company (TM),
> www.enterux.com
>
> Quoting Gondar Monn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Any one using one of those on their VOIP network ? Experience with and
> > without ?
> >
> > Thanks for sharing !
> >
> > Gondar
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Polycom v. Snom

[Tim Koehler]

snom actually supports up to 3 extension keypads each with 54 buttons (with
LED). So with the 12 line buttons on the phone you can have up to 174
buttons *(3 x 54 + 1 x 12).

The extension keypads are compatible with snom 320/360/370. Phones range
between 199-299 $, one keypad is 120$ (all MSRP).


*
On Feb 5, 2008 9:07 AM, Antonio Gallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> John Williams ha scritto:
> > but wonder why they don't have an
> > attendant console, which we currently use.
>
> What do you mean by an attendant console? Isn't a snom 360/370 + keypad
> enough?
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Re: [asterisk-biz] Session Border Controller

[Mitul Limbani]

Gondar,

You might as well be interested to know that FreeSwitch has SBC 
functionality (as i look into their Spec Sheet on Wiki) I havent tried 
it yet, but shall start exploring it soon.

Thanks & Regards,
Mitul Limbani,
Founder & CEO,
Enterux Solutions,
The Enterprise Linux Company (TM),
www.enterux.com

Quoting Gondar Monn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Any one using one of those on their VOIP network ? Experience with and
> without ?
>
> Thanks for sharing !
>
> Gondar

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Re: [asterisk-biz] Asterisk Business Edition

[Mitul Limbani]

Hello,

Quoting Sergey Tamkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Is it true that ABE supports Dialogic boards? If yes, what else ABE
> supports what normal Asterisk doesn't?

Not entirely true, coz I didnt find the driver files in my ABE pack :)
Well I might have to contact Digium to find out regarding the same.

But I guess ABE is outdated compared to the GPL Stable which has more 
features coming in, just that Digium provides a surity that ABE wont 
break and if it would, they would provide support to fix it ASAP. Apart 
from that they provide IP Indemnity to the licensees (just as Novell 
did for SuSE Linux)

Thanks & Regards,
Mitul Limbani,
Founder & CEO,
Enterux Solutions,
The Enterprise Linux Company (TM),
www.enterux.com

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Re: [asterisk-biz] Polycom v. Snom

[Antonio Gallo]

John Williams ha scritto:
> but wonder why they don't have an 
> attendant console, which we currently use.

What do you mean by an attendant console? Isn't a snom 360/370 + keypad 
enough?

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