Wow, been working all night. First time I got, got in years. LOL. Thanks and good one, Steve T
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rizwan Kassim <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- 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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