Hi I have successfully built a FreeSwitch system and just wanted to get some input from those who have already deployed a system as to your hardware of choice (just the OS hardware - will be running Linux)? Is there someone who makes a good slimline blackbox solution or should I just put together my own machine. I will be using all external devices (no internal FXO/FXS cards) so there should be no need to worry about which is the best mobo etc. My concern is that a standard PC is not meant to be left running 24/7 (reliability) while a server may be too expensive and large for the task? All comments greatly appreciated.
a WRT device is probably what you're looking for. Search the mailing list and the wiki for info and instructions. -giovanni On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:43 PM, ocset <ocset@the800group.com> wrote:
Hi
I have successfully built a FreeSwitch system and just wanted to get some input from those who have already deployed a system as to your hardware of choice (just the OS hardware - will be running Linux)?
Is there someone who makes a good slimline blackbox solution or should I just put together my own machine. I will be using all external devices (no internal FXO/FXS cards) so there should be no need to worry about which is the best mobo etc.
My concern is that a standard PC is not meant to be left running 24/7 (reliability) while a server may be too expensive and large for the task?
All comments greatly appreciated.
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Depending on the throughput ie number of calls an Alix board can be a pretty solid solution too. On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz@gmail.com> wrote:
a WRT device is probably what you're looking for.
Search the mailing list and the wiki for info and instructions.
-giovanni
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:43 PM, ocset <ocset@the800group.com> wrote:
Hi
I have successfully built a FreeSwitch system and just wanted to get some input from those who have already deployed a system as to your hardware of choice (just the OS hardware - will be running Linux)?
Is there someone who makes a good slimline blackbox solution or should I just put together my own machine. I will be using all external devices (no internal FXO/FXS cards) so there should be no need to worry about which is the best mobo etc.
My concern is that a standard PC is not meant to be left running 24/7 (reliability) while a server may be too expensive and large for the task?
All comments greatly appreciated.
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-- Sincerely,
Giovanni Maruzzelli Cell : +39-347-2665618
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ocset wrote:
My concern is that a standard PC is not meant to be left running 24/7 (reliability) while a server may be too expensive and large for the task? These days, a standard PC is very reliable to run on 24/7, AFAICT. The problem using a standard PC as a server for personal use is nothing, but a waste in electricity, especially if the standard PC is a multi-core CPUs system and the services it provides use less than 2% CPU + system resources. These days, an ARM driven Linux embedded system clocked @800+ MHz with at least 64MB RAM + a USB2 port can easily be turned into a server to host FS + among other things. In your case, you can setup any inexpensive http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=PogoPlug#... PogoPlug device to host your FS and it will easily handle 20 concurrent calls sans transcodings, AFAICT. Adding some http://www.amazon.com/OBi110-Service-Bridge-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B0045RMEPI Obi-110 devices as extensions to your FS, you can have a bridge between your VoIP and PSTN lines. For me, my FS is for personal use with no more than five concurrent calls sans transcodings.
For me, I have my FS + among other things hosted on a Seagate http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar DockStar running on an http://openwrt.org OpenWRT OS and it works flawlessly. Friends say their http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_A_Watt Kill-A-Watt device shows a Seagate http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar DockStar (with an external USB card reader + an 8GB SDHC card) alone consumes a little less than 3 Watts of electricity. On idle, FS uses no more than 6% CPU resources on my server. This got me thinking, perhaps I should let my main NAT/Firewall router (an old and discontinued Netgear http://support.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2598 WGT634U ) to host my FS. The only problem I found is FS will take about 24 minutes from the moment I flip the switch to turn on my router before it is ready to serve calls. ----- FreeSWITCH hosted on a Seagate DockStar with OpenWRT and ONLY consumes 3 Watts of electricity. -- View this message in context: http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/Hardware-PC-vs-blackbox-vs-ser... Sent from the freeswitch-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UAL5AU/ref=ox_ya_os_product 680MHz CPU, 128MB RAM, 32MB flash for under $100. It will start out life at my house as a router+AP but I'm sure I'll be tempted to throw FS on it with OpenWRT at some point... On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:57 AM, mazilo <Nabble_01394@slickdeals.endjunk.com> wrote:
ocset wrote:
My concern is that a standard PC is not meant to be left running 24/7 (reliability) while a server may be too expensive and large for the task? These days, a standard PC is very reliable to run on 24/7, AFAICT. The problem using a standard PC as a server for personal use is nothing, but a waste in electricity, especially if the standard PC is a multi-core CPUs system and the services it provides use less than 2% CPU + system resources. These days, an ARM driven Linux embedded system clocked @800+ MHz with at least 64MB RAM + a USB2 port can easily be turned into a server to host FS + among other things. In your case, you can setup any inexpensive http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=PogoPlug#... PogoPlug device to host your FS and it will easily handle 20 concurrent calls sans transcodings, AFAICT. Adding some http://www.amazon.com/OBi110-Service-Bridge-Telephone-Adapter/dp/B0045RMEPI Obi-110 devices as extensions to your FS, you can have a bridge between your VoIP and PSTN lines. For me, my FS is for personal use with no more than five concurrent calls sans transcodings.
For me, I have my FS + among other things hosted on a Seagate http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar DockStar running on an http://openwrt.org OpenWRT OS and it works flawlessly. Friends say their http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_A_Watt Kill-A-Watt device shows a Seagate http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/freeagent_dockstar DockStar (with an external USB card reader + an 8GB SDHC card) alone consumes a little less than 3 Watts of electricity. On idle, FS uses no more than 6% CPU resources on my server. This got me thinking, perhaps I should let my main NAT/Firewall router (an old and discontinued Netgear http://support.netgear.com/app/products/model/a_id/2598 WGT634U ) to host my FS. The only problem I found is FS will take about 24 minutes from the moment I flip the switch to turn on my router before it is ready to serve calls.
----- FreeSWITCH hosted on a Seagate DockStar with OpenWRT and ONLY consumes 3 Watts of electricity. -- View this message in context: http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/Hardware-PC-vs-blackbox-vs-ser... Sent from the freeswitch-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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That's is not bad especially if OP is also looking for a NAT/Firewall router. However, I would rather spend less for a more powerful device, i.e. http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=pogoplug+pro&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop... PogoPlug Pro , etc., as my personal server to host FS + among other things. Honestly, I don't know if debian ARM has already supported this device. That said, the device is built on a multi-core ARM6 (PLX NAS7820) CPU with 128MB RAM clocked @1.2GHz. This http://archlinuxarm.org/forum ArchLinux forum has a lot of information on how to hack this device. Kristian Kielhofner-3 wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004UAL5AU/ref=ox_ya_os_product
680MHz CPU, 128MB RAM, 32MB flash for under $100. It will start out life at my house as a router+AP but I'm sure I'll be tempted to throw FS on it with OpenWRT at some point...
----- FreeSWITCH hosted on a Seagate DockStar with OpenWRT and ONLY consumes 3 Watts of electricity. -- View this message in context: http://freeswitch-users.2379917.n2.nabble.com/Hardware-PC-vs-blackbox-vs-ser... Sent from the freeswitch-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
participants (5)
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Giovanni Maruzzelli
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Kristian Kielhofner
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mazilo
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ocset
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Roger Castaldo