We recently broke down and purchased an IP04, a Blackfin 532 based IP PBX, from www.ucpbx.com. I’ve read many good things regarding the processor and the work being put in to AstFin, the Asterisk/Linux distro for the board.
I expect many hours of fun exploring the device once it arrives. I’ll post more when it’s finally in my grubby little hands 
After running my home Asterisk setup on an old Dell desktop for the past year I decided to take the plunge in to an embedded system - a Soekris Net5501.
I settled on the 5501-60 which comes configured with the following:
The first thing I did when it arrived was take the screws out of the case and take a look at the guts (Pics will follow in a future post). The footprint of the entire system is the size of a small 12 port switch.
After showing it off to some friends I quickly moved on to getting a combined Linux and Asterisk distro installed. I started with AstLinux.
Check back in a few days and I’ll provide a review
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