On 14/06/10 18:11, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Chris Bagnall wrote: > >> Actually, the Atom seems to be surprisingly powerful. We have a couple of >> Atom boxes with transcoding and conferences enabled without issue. I >> wouldn't pretend it'll cope with hundreds of conference participants, but >> with ~10 or so it seems to be fine. > > I'll second the Atoms - I have several in the data centre handling VoIP, > virtual PBXs, etc. And you can now get fanless motherboards. Bliss. > > Even using a few as general purpose LAMP servers too - the data centre I > use doesn't charge per amp, but it's coming, and already there in most big > places - in the UK, anyway - it seems Amps cost more than Gb) > >> Likewise with transcoding - we've only really tested up to ~30 channels with >> G.711 to GSM, not any of the "heavier CPU workload" translations (e.g. iLBC >> or G.729). >> >> For a small to medium office (e.g. 30 extensions, 10 concurrent calls) it >> works fine, even with a little conferencing and transcoding. > > I do that with a 500MHz AMD Geode ... (no transcoding though - benchmarked > it to 85 concurrent calls, handling the media streams - limit these boxes > to 60 extensions though) > > Gordon >
+1 for Atom based systems. I use them too (although we build the systems ourselves). It really is quite powerful hardware, has no problems transcoding, conferences, multiple ports of ISDN BRI or a single PRI. I'd be happy using one of these up to 50 extensions with 15-20 concurrent calls. I use an Atom based system at home too which is running OpenVZ with things like apache tomcat, asterisk, nfs server etc... all running at the same time. cheers, Paul. -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- 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
