Best of luck but this is FUD and laughable. If you want, I can do a point by point, but I am sure most Asterisk folks know what is bunk. The most laughable.
500 calls a day, seriously? No open source that does call recording? This "Press Release", if you can call it that, does not belong on the list. Thanks Steve Totaro On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Alex Balashov <[email protected]>wrote: > For immediate release: > > ATLANTA, GA (1 April 2013)--Evariste Systems LLC, an Atlanta-based > consultancy specialising in Kamailio-based VoIP infrastructure solutions > for the ITSP and CLEC market, has announced that beginning in the second > quarter of 2013, it will be abandoning its Kamailio-based technology > portfolio to focus on its new role as a preferred VAR (Value Added > Reseller) for Acme Packet (NASDAQ:APKT). > > "It is with a heavy heart that we abandon five years of Kamailio-oriented > work and the Canonical SIP Routing Platform product derived from it," > said Alex Balashov, the principal of the company. > > "However, the reality is that investment in open-source VoIP technology > is a dead end. From a technological point of view, we have lagged very > badly in meeting the needs of today's sophisticated VoIP market, and it's > time to cut our losses. Asterisk, Kamailio, FreeSWITCH--all this stuff > just hasn't kept up with the pace of evolution of 3GPP, ETSI, and ITU > standards. We are tired of saying 'sorry, we don't support IMS or > H.323' to our resultingly dwindling customer base. Does anyone > actually run an all-SIP network?" > > Starting in early April, Evariste will begin providing value-added > consultancy related to the implementation of the Acme Packet Net-Net > Session Director. In Balashov's view, "the Net-Net SD is the only > product capable of meeting the perimeter security, routing and peering > needs of today's VoIP service delivery environment." > > Fred Posner, the director of Team Forrest, a Palner Group integration > and consultancy operation based in the Jacksonville, Florida area, > agreed: > > "SIP is a tiny piece of the telephony puzzle. The big boys of > ClueCon [an interoperator revenue-sharing consortium] want DIAMETER-based > interdomain peering policy control, H.323, MGCP, and IMS. IMS is pretty > much how VoIP architecture is done now. We got out of the Asterisk > business just in time, right before Mitel swallowed the PBX world. > I'm glad to see Evariste is finally seeing the light, and I'm sure its > shareholders are too." > > Posner also believes Evariste's lack of support for TDM interfaces > accounted for dwindling market share. > > "Have you seen CSRP? It's SIP in, SIP out. Real inter-LATA haulers > and application service providers use TDM and leave SIP for things > like voicemail. I can't plug my DS3s into a SIP proxy, so I just > don't think there was any real demand for the sort of thing they > were doing." > > Noting Oracle's US$2.5bn acquisition of Acme Packet in early February, > as well as its more recently announced buyout of Tekelec, a Siris > Capital Group portfolio company, Balashov remarked: "The obvious > shift to an Oracle-centric telephony paradigm was a kind of validation, > if you will, of our decision to unload our dead weight and sign on > to the revolution in unified communications." > > Sean McCord, of CyCORE Systems, an Atlanta-based software consulting > house and long-time Evariste creditor, agreed that there was a natural > synergy between Evariste's shift to Acme Packet and Oracle's dominance > of telephony infrastructure. > > "Oracle is a forward-thinking telecom pioneer," McCord said. > "The telephone is Oracle, and Oracle is the telephone." > > Balashov also noted that a tightening regulatory environment and new > consumer protection rules helped hasten the decision to embrace the > more professionalised Acme Packet product portfolio. > > John Knight, Senior Engineer at Hendersonville, NC-based Ringfree > Communications, one of Evariste's oldest channel partners, said: > "As one of Evariste's long-time disties, we were jittery about exposure > to CALEA and the QA requirements of large call centers. We tried to > make do, but at some point we just had to put the relationship on > stop. I'm all in favour of open, but there's just no open-source > software out there that does call recording, and that's the bottom line > for us. In the end, we had to restructure some debt just to get > bondholders to let us source a proprietary solution on tick." > > In a thematically related move, Evariste will be dropping its heavy > use of the open-source PostgreSQL database manager for its rating and > reporting tools. > > "The business case for standardising on Oracle's databases could not be > clearer. With Oracle Database 11g's support of warehousing and OLTP, > the real mystery is why we didn't go there sooner," said Balashov. > > Carlos Alvarez, a director at Televolve, a growing Phoenix-area VoIP > operator, recently spearheaded a move away from Evariste's PostgreSQL- > based call detail record (CDR) storage solution to one running atop > Microsoft SQL Server 2008. > > Alvarez commented: "Evariste had a nice idea, in a cute, David-and-Goliath > kind of way, but we're processing over five hundred phone calls a day > now. Are we really going to store those kinds of volumes in an > open-source database? Might as well just put it all in flat text > files at that point. Phone service is an uptime game. You can't > compromise on this stuff. What if someone needs to call 911?" > > Asked to summarise his expectations, Balashov said: "I hope this turns us > around in a big way. We were wrong to think that nobody cared about > stuff like P-CSCFs, or that you could deliver even rudimentary VoIP > to the premise without the expansive feature set of a comprehensive > solution like the Net-Net SBC. I can only hope the market forgives us > for betting on 'SIP Express Router' and its ilk back in the day, and > gives us a chance to do it right in round two." > > Fred Posner, of Team Forrest, added: "Besides, if you look at the Git > repository, Kamailio hasn't had any code contributions in at least five > years. It seems everyone's figured out this pure SIP stuff is defunct > and hokey." > > > > -- > ______________________________**______________________________**_________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > > http://lists.digium.com/**mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz<http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz> >
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