I suggest you look at the date. On Apr 1, 2013 3:47 AM, "Steve Totaro" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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> >> > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- 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 >
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