Most IT dept hold to the philosophy that individual mission purpose devices will do a better job. Also helps minimize failiure issues. I guess we are talking small companies here. If the user is over 50 employees, I think seperate is not only smart, but economically reasonable as well.
On 10/26/07, Quidigal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > JR is right. We have such an implementation that we developed in '00 and > have been running on embdded and pc architecture systems. > Until we were able to control resource allocation took a lot of testing > about 2 years. Some of our systems even had the access part on them as > well > and in many instances we had hardware acceleration for VPN and NAT and > still > was tricky. > > robert > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JR Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 3:54 PM > Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] New IP PBX lifting the bar > > > >> This new bread of gear seems to be PBX, Firewall, Router, POE switch > etc > >> rolled into one unit. > >> > >> Has anyone else seen new commercial new gear that has equally > impressive > >> feature sets? > >> > > > > I believe someone came up with a combo Asterisk PBX with > > Router/VPN/Firewall > > image a couple of years ago. Don't ask me to point it out, it's lost in > > the > > ether I think. I didn't hear any specifics about commercial installs > and > > how well the system performed in real world. > > > > My biggest concern is resource contention on the platform, what happens > > when > > the router/vpn/firewall has 8 vpn connections, natting 60 sessions and > > applying QOS to the outbound RTP stream for 10 calls whilst the PBX is > > recording calls, playing a couple of auto attendant loops and hosting a > 6 > > person conference bridge? > > > > JR > > --- > > JR Richardson > > Engineering for the Masses > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > > > asterisk-biz mailing list > > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > -- Bob Murphy Principal Arreva Communications www.arrevausa.com 949-334-2022-SIP Connect 949-842-8450-Wireless 949-349-0209-Fax
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