Gary, thanks for your comment. It is very very helpful. Do you consider astlinux ready to be deployed in customer sites in PBX only mode and with a maximum of 12 to 16 regular users in a small office?
On 9/29/06, Gary G. Hendershot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Erick: > > If I understand correctly, you want to install Astlinux on a CF card but use > a HDD as your "KeyDisk" for voicemail storage. This is not a problem, I > have done it and it works well. In the end, I found that a 4gb USB thumb > drive had more than enough space for my own voicemail needs so I decided to > go that way to remove the moving parts from the equation. But the install > worked well with the hard drive. > > What you would do is install the CF reader as the MASTER IDE drive. Then > install the HDD as the SLAVE IDE drive (or the secondary IDE channel). When > you get the CF booting properly, run the GENKD utility against whatever > designation the hard drive ended up with. Could be something like "GENKD > /dev/hdb" or maybe "GENKD /dev/hdd". This is very similar to what you would > do if you were using a USB thumb drive where you run the "GENKD /dev/sda" > command. The "FDISK -l" command will tell what Linux has recognized as > avaialble drives so you can identify it. > > And actually, I have found some of the various rants about external FXO/FXS > gateways of interest. I will be in need of such very shortly and it is > interesting to me to hear other folks experience with some of the various > products out there. I have never had to use anything more sophisticated > than a Linksys PAP2 in the past, so I have found this discussion to be quite > educational. > > G.Hendershot > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erick Perez > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 10:52 AM > To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash > Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] external Gateway vs PCI card [was: KeyDisk] > > Kristian, you haven't had time to play with Quintums right? They are as > painful as AudioCodes. > > Tom, > When I'm sure that my customer will not care to see extra boxes right next > to the asterisk I go with external gateways all the time. > External Gateways (EG) provide me with the following benefits: > - EG Always have DSP chips implemented, some brands implement Octasic DSP > chips, others utilize different manufacturers. > - EG Provides the horsepower to mix and mtch codecs, and in case I need to > do transcoding, a dedicated box is always better than a motherboard full of > TDM400P -I need to make a special comment about EG and the need for channel > banks. Here my choice is RedFone (http://www.red-fone.com/) it is basically > TDMoE and it helps me achieve several other things in terms of balance and > redundancy. > > Since I am in Panama,Central America, the only thing we care when talking > about brands are Clothes, Watches and Cars. > If the customer has the money, we go for Cisco, Audicodes, Mediatrix, > because we get them locally and they have a representation office. > If the customer wants to start low and then go up then we use things like > Quintum, Octtel or equiments from telecomchinasourcing. We need to order > them from Asia, takes a long time to come here and we might have to have > some stock in case of get a unit DOA. > > But to give you and example: Octtel 4 FXS, with onboard DSP, > SIP,h323,IAX2 and some other nice things: US Dollars: 250.00 and the 8port > FXS 450.00 both with 6 months warranty and full system exchange in case of > failure. > And the important thing, They work like a charm, they dont crash, they dont > get toasted,etc. > > And My Asterisk box will be more than happy to get a voice stream that does > not need to transcode, recode, etc. > > So my advice to you Tom, get External Gateways but keep them below 20-30 FXS > or below 20-30 FXO, ottherwise you'll end up wasting room space and power > consumption. > > Kris: do you use app_meetme or app_conference for conference rooms? > The question arises due to meetme needing to convert to slin before stream > broadcasting. app_conference does not need to do that. > > Oh, an in case someone actually read this post, im still learning about > mini/micro/nano ATX/ITX and I need to know what do I need to get to deploy a > 12FXS/4FXO g711, CF based linux/asterisk and hdd used to hold voicemail. My > previous post went unanswered. ;;) > > > I hope my rant help others.... > > > > On 9/28/06, Kristian Kielhofner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tom Bacevicius wrote: > > > I am about to start researching the purchase of a few of these > > > external gateways. I was wondering if anyone could share their > > > experiences and make some recommendations? Kristian, you seem to > > > have quite a bit of experience with these things. Can you share some > > > of your wisdom with us ;-) > > > > > > Thanks, Tom > > > > > > > Tom, > > > > Analog/POTS: > > > > AudioCodes seem nice. I have yet to use one extensively, but I have a > > couple of them lying around that I have played with a bit. They have > > a TON of configuration options (seriously - if you though Sipura was > > bad, just wait), which I always appreciate. > > > > For one off scenarios, I like the Linksys/Sipura devices. The > > features aren't bad, they are easily provisioned, and they are stable. > > There are some quirks, though. For instance, last I checked the 3xxx > > gateways do not listen for DTMF tones on the PSTN Line when the call > > has been connected to a SIP server. That's pretty annoying... > > > > Digital (PRI hopefully): > > > > Cisco. I really have a love/hate relationship with them. Just when I > > start to appreciate their products, I am reminded of why so many > > people hate them. When it comes time to activate or renew a service > > contract, for example (just to get new IOS versions). Anyways, they > > are expensive but you can find a 2651XM and NM-HDV module on the used > > market for less than you'd think (still not cheap). It you are buying > > new gear, on the low end the 2811 + PVDM2 + VWIC2 is a good combo. On > > the high end, you have got to appreciate the AS5xxxXM, which can > > easily support eight PRI circuits in 1U. All Cisco gear has > > standardized versions of IOS that support everything you'd ever need, > including: > > > > 1) SIP over anything - UDP,TCP,etc > > 2) T.38 faxing (even as a gateway, obviously) > > 3) G729a/b/G723 in hardware (DSP) > > 4) So, so much more > > > > -- > > Kristian Kielhofner > > _______________________________________________ > > Astlinux-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Erick Perez > Panama Sistemas > Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, > Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 > ------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
