I have two phones lines + broadband coming into my house, and would like to use asterisk for voice mail, maybe some other features.
How much cpu/memory do I need to run just two lines with voicemail?
I'm looking at the digum hardware. I also have an old dialogic card collecting dust in the attic. I think it is the d21 (non d) version which has mu-law and a-law codecs, but I don't know if it is supported.
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Jon Carnes wrote:
Don't be afraid to download, install, and play with Asterisk. It's quite powerful. Note though that Asterisk needs lots of CPU in order to function as a decent phone switch. A 1Ghz box with lots of RAM and a SCSI HD could probably handle 5 phones, whereas a 2GHz box could probably handle 20 phones... It scales well, but does need CPU in order to function nicely under load.
The highest load, seems to be from VoiceMail/AutoAttendent activities; servicing these seems to need very fast CPU and a SCSI disk subsystem. The actual phone connections don't require very much processing power in order to sustain the connections.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
Jon Carnes
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