The Asterisk Appliance Developer Kit - Overview

Note:  I found this on another blog.  It goes a little more into Digium's Asterisk Appiance and has a photo of the back with a diagram.  I am still on the fence if I should purchase one of these to play around with.   Today I plan to install AsteriskNow on an old Dell to see how it does.  I hope its as easy as Mark said it was in his recent YouTube apperance.

"The Asterisk Appliance is a standalone embedded PBX. Targeted for small to medium businesses (2-50 users), and remote branch offices of larger organizations (2-50 users per site), the Digium Asterisk Appliance will feature the commercially licensed Asterisk Business Edition software and the first Digium-developed Asterisk GUI framework."

The Asterisk Appliance appears to take advantage of the Blackfin DSP's microcode programmability by implementing echo cancellation, and possibly other telephony functions, in hardware.
 
The Appliance's I/O includes eight analog ports (FXS, FXO), a WAN port, four LAN ports, hardware echo cancellation, and a "craft port" for debugging. Expansion is available through a CompactFlash slot suitable for voicemail storage cards or wireless radio peripherals.
 
 

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Posted by Dal on January 24, 2007 09:42 AM |
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