Re: [VoiceOps] Multi Tenant Commercial Softswitch Besides Broadsoft
Other considerations (cost) An Asterisk 1U server sotswitch will comfortably handle 100 concurrent calls, as a business grows Additional 1U Servers are added. If a 1U switch would crash, automatic failover to other 1U load balanced softswitch servers. Because of the lower cost entry redundancy in multiple Co-locations is easily accomplished. Live CDR can be pushed to the billing product of your choice. A class 4 or 5 tandem switch is very expensive. Multiple co-location is next to impossible unless you have seven digits to invest. John cid:7A1F90D5-2114-4F17-B9C6-0230EB9EAD47@hsd1.pa.comcast.net. From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Chris Carabello Sent: Monday, August 4, 2014 8:56 PM To: voiceops@voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Multi Tenant Commercial Softswitch Besides Broadsoft Hi, I'm a new member to the group and happy to contribute to this thread. For background purposes, Metaswitch has hundreds of service providers globally using our carrier-grade platform to deliver a complete Class 5, Trunking, and Hosted PBX solution and Accession UC Client to a broad range of enterprise customers. We also have a number of service providers who offer a wholesale whitelabel offering as well. I'll be happy to address specific questions about the breadth of our solution. Suffice it to say that service providers, large and small, are winning in the market with our feature set. We are also deployed in service providers who offer the same enterprise offering alongside those which is built on other vendors' platforms (as a result of MA). In other scenarios, service providers have opted to completely migrate from other platforms to Metaswitch. In other cases, we provide the Class 4, Media Gateway functions (we can talk TDM and SIP), and/or SBC, which has been reviewed favorably by independent analysts and the market alike and can be deployed on HW or virtualized as well. Chris Carabello Senior Director - Product Marketing 510-217-2019 METASWITCH NETWORKS THE BRAINS OF THE NEW GLOBAL NETWORK www.metaswitch.com ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
Re: [VoiceOps] Multi Tenant Commercial Softswitch Besides Broadsoft
We can set up a 100 concurrent redundant asterisk with a billing platform for less than $40 k. It will do SIP Trunking and Hosted. Automatically shut off customers if they don’t pay you. This is a system you would own in your own Colo, not a white label. John cid:7A1F90D5-2114-4F17-B9C6-0230EB9EAD47@hsd1.pa.comcast.net. 322 Mall Blvd., # 190 Monroeville, Pa. 15146 Phone 412.307.3600 VFax 412.380.8701 “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” ― A.A. Milne From: Max Clark [mailto:max.cl...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:37 PM To: John Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Multi Tenant Commercial Softswitch Besides Broadsoft That's excellent. You should tell Colton. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:34 PM, John telec...@gmail.com wrote: We can set up a 100 concurrent redundant asterisk with a billing platform for less than $40 k On Jul 31, 2014, at 7:15 PM, Max Clark max.cl...@gmail.com wrote: Colton, Are you on a hosted/white label Broadsoft installation or do you own your own license? I'm curious because I assume that you have a significant investment in your current platform and dumping that investment would require an even larger investment in another platform (not counting the training, migration, etc...). Metaswitch for example is a fantastic platform, but I don't know of any installation running it for less than $250k. I get the idea of switching from Broadsoft to have service differentiation, but I'd counter with two points. 1) Everyone is using Broadsoft because it works, and 2) if you switch to another licensed platform you'd still be competing with other providers using that platform. So if you are really looking for a unique one of a kind platform you'd probably be better served by rolling your own and partnering/paying Sprint for their WMI platform for your mobile needs. Max On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Colton Conor colton.co...@gmail.com wrote: So to sum it up, so far I have been recommended the following besides Broadsoft: Metaswitch Genband Alianza NetSapiens XCast Labs EnSwitch Is there anyone else that to add the this list? The must be service provider grade offering the multi tenant functionality, and management features. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Tim Jackson jackson@gmail.com wrote: As far as tricks with a cell client, Accession from Metaswitch is pretty slick there.. No real SMS integration yet (but you can easily add this since Accession supports XMPP).. On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Colton Conor colton.co...@gmail.com wrote: To be a little more specific, at minimum the platform should have the following: A device manager for phones for automated provisioning and firmware updates Integrated SMS Functionality Integrate Cell Phone functionality. I guess an app that allows use of your cell phone as an extension, and not just a soft client. Any platform can use Bria! All the standard features that Broadsoft at least provides. Advanced fraud detection! On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Colton Conor colton.co...@gmail.com wrote: What carrier and service provider multitenant softswitch and pbx systems are on the market today besides Broadsoft? We use a Broadsoft solution today. We like the redundancy that Broadsoft offers, and the fact that it just works. However, they are starting to seriously lack features, and there are too many Broadsoft competitors. We are finding that our Broadsoft offering is no different than Comcast, Verizon, or other local providers that offer Broadsoft services to. We are really looking for something that integrates well for the mobile worker. The ability to use their cell phone with the service is key for us. The day's of clients buying $300 Polycom IP phones are slowing down. However, people understand the value and are willing to spend $600 on a smartphone. What commercial solutions are there? ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
Re: [VoiceOps] Voice DDOS ?
I would just block the originating IP address. It would appear to me someone is trying to compromise your system. -Original Message- From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Aloi Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:44 AM To: Ivan Kovacevic Cc: voiceops@voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Voice DDOS ? Sounds like a possible loop, the No Routes Found recording comes off of a Sonus Networks GSX or SBC. How is the TFN arriving to your network? - Chris On 24 Feb 2014, at 9:01, Ivan Kovacevic wrote: Hi Folks, We are seeing something strange coming across our network. A disconnected client TFN is receiving 30,000+ calls per hour (all failing). The ANIs being used are dummy ANIs 17029983416 (no answer) and 16469820093 (recording saying no routes found). This is not affecting our network, although it's causing the upstream provider a bit of grief. Not sure why someone would do this We are about to remove the CICs at the sms800 level, but just wondering if anyone has come across something similar? Thanks, Ivan ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
Re: [VoiceOps] Fraud
Would you mind sharing your hi toll rate destination dial plan? From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] On Behalf Of My List Account Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 1:48 PM To: voiceops@voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Fraud Maybe I am missing something here but why does the carrier that delivers the fraudulent traffic to the Telco that's in on the fraud pay the Telco that's in on the fraud for the calls that are delivered to their network? Seems pretty simple, if you cut off their revenue stream they won't have a reason to continue. I guess we all know there is no incentive for them to stop this practice because it's a big cash cow for everyone except for the poor end user who is left holding the bag. Our default dial plan won't let you dial these destinations so we don't have a real issue with this abusive traffic. Most of our customers who use international go with one of our filtered dial plans that let them dial most of the world except for known fraudulent and high toll rate destinations. Richey From: VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Delgrosso Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 11:48 AM To: voiceops@voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Fraud In most cases you will lose this customer. They don't see this as their responsibility (i.e. the credit card fraud defense) but the reality is their equipment was compromised due to their negligence. If the customer is reasonable offer them your cost on the damages so its just a passthrough. Otherwise you can take them to court or just send them to collections. BTW while many will advocate fraud detection and mitigation systems here, its been my experience (we wrote our own fraud system that out-performs our upstream carriers by hours) that if you detect fraud on a customer like this, and shut it down in minutes, and mitigate what could have been thousands of dollars in damage due to their mis-configured systems, reducing it to just tens or hundreds they will often still fight that amount and deny responsibility. The fraud system protects you, and by extension the customer, but the customers don't see it that way. -Ryan On 02/19/2014 02:09 PM, John Curry wrote: I am new to your site. I was looking in the Archives and saw in November 2013 there were some of you who experienced fraud. We had a an Avaya IP Office customers system who got hit pretty bad. The customer is treating the fraudulent calls like credit card fraud and not taking any responsibility. Does anyone have any advice on how to persuade the customer take this issue seriously? His bill was racked up pretty good. Strangely and coincidentally Avaya came out with a security bulletin the end of December 2013 on this same issue. I tried to contact Avaya with no response. It seems as though someone has built a sniffer for the Avaya IP Offices and gleaning their registrations. ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
[VoiceOps] Fraud
I am new to your site. I was looking in the Archives and saw in November 2013 there were some of you who experienced fraud. We had a an Avaya IP Office customers system who got hit pretty bad. The customer is treating the fraudulent calls like credit card fraud and not taking any responsibility. Does anyone have any advice on how to persuade the customer take this issue seriously? His bill was racked up pretty good. Strangely and coincidentally Avaya came out with a security bulletin the end of December 2013 on this same issue. I tried to contact Avaya with no response. It seems as though someone has built a sniffer for the Avaya IP Offices and gleaning their registrations. ___ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
