On Thu, Dec 10, Brian May wrote:
Hello,
I asked this question on my local linux user group mailing list, and got the recommendation to ask here.
Anyway, at the moment I am running Asterisk on an IP04 embedded system. http://www.rowetel.com/ucasterisk/ip04.html
It works well most of the time, however there are some bugs that do, under circumstances lead to less then desirable behaviour (such as on some occasions which I don't fully understand sometimes the remote system fails to generate any audio packets when there is no audio - almost like silence suppression was supported by the remote system - and asterisk fails to generate any audio packets in return; on another slower computer running the same SIP software and on the same network everything works fine; as far as I can tell the software - twinkle - doesn't even support silence suppression).
I suspect at least some - if not all - of the issues I have encountered may be resolved with Freeswitch, however I don't really want to replace my small, energy efficient, embedded system, with a large, power hungry computer system. Overkill.
An added complication is I need at least 1 analogue port to connect to the Australian based telephone line (2 ports exchange ports and 1 extension port would be ideal but not essiential).
Unfortunately, I have been told that the IP04 hardware isn't compatable with the requirements of Freeswitch. Such as not having a MMU. So there doesn't appear to be much effort porting Freeswitch to IP04 as a result.
I do have a spare TDM400p card, although as it is full height, suspect this isn't going to help.
Are there any other good alternatives?
A board with an atom 330 on it would probably do the trick for you. There are a few made by Intel and Supermicro that look pretty nice. There were some other people on the list looking to use them. Maybe we can get a report from someone. --FC