RE: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus
What are the hardware requierements? We are trying to choose between the soft pkg or the hosted application Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:04 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Hi, We have been running Rodopi for almost 8 years now. It works great and we have never had a problem. Travis Microserv G.Villarini wrote: Any info on the pro and cons of both billing platforms ? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus
Title: Message another WISP / ISP OSS vendor to check out is Airpath Wireless - www.airpath.com They come from the WiFi side, and are trying to do a few interesting things for fixed wireless ISPs (in respect to roamingideas, etc) -Charles ---WiNOG Austin, TXMarch 13-15, 2006http://www.winog.com -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of G.VillariniSent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:17 AMTo: 'WISPA General List'Subject: RE: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus What are the hardware requierements? We are trying to choose between the soft pkg or the hosted application Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Travis JohnsonSent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:04 PMTo: WISPA General ListSubject: Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Hi,We have been running Rodopi for almost 8 years now. It works great and we have never had a problem.TravisMicroservG.Villarini wrote: Any info on the pro and cons of both billing platforms ? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus
Hi, We run it on a single P4 machine with 1GB of RAM and we have thousands of customers. Travis Microserv G.Villarini wrote: What are the hardware requierements? We are trying to choose between the soft pkg or the hosted application Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Travis Johnson Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:04 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Hi, We have been running Rodopi for almost 8 years now. It works great and we have never had a problem. Travis Microserv G.Villarini wrote: Any info on the pro and cons of both billing platforms ? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
RE: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus
They both stink, but for an ISP centric solutionthe alternatives are worse. After switching from Platy to Rodopi I would say that although Rodopi has one of the worst interfaces ever created we think it is a better product. It's pretty easy to link all your systems to it via some custom scripts and if you use their merchant account system you can have the whole thingsetup in 24hrs. Their east coast support # appears to be someones house as you can hear their kids/family in the background... but they have never failed to solve our problems. matt From: G.Villarini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:53 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'WISPA General List'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Any info on the pro and cons of both billing platforms ? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus
We are in the process of switching to Freeside. I have demoed almost every billing system out there and Freeside seems to be the most flexible and cost effective. Jory Privett WCCS - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:09 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Unless you have in-house developers who are comfortable with doing Windows development (Visual Basic, if I remember correctly) Rodopi is a nightmare. My original ISP used it for about five years, and managed 4000+ customers with it. It has some cool features, but we were never able to get it to do exactly what we wanted to do and there were all kinds of license requirements and extra charges. I think we spent nearly $10K over that five years in licensing alone - not to mention a lot of custom development to get the information out of it that we wanted. We were actually exporting the entire sql database out of MsSQL to a linux box with MySQL every morning so we could get the information we needed out of it. Man, I don't miss those days. The people on my staff who had experience with Rodopi and Freeside would take Freeside any day. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] G.Villarini wrote: What are the hardware requierements? We are trying to choose between the soft pkg or the hosted application Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com http://www.aeronetpr.com/ 787.273.4143 *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Travis Johnson *Sent:* Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:04 PM *To:* WISPA General List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Hi, We have been running Rodopi for almost 8 years now. It works great and we have never had a problem. Travis Microserv G.Villarini wrote: Any info on the pro and cons of both billing platforms ? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com http://www.aeronetpr.com/ 787.273.4143 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus
www.sisd.com/freeside It is open source based on Perl, Apache and Postgres SQL . It runs best on a Debian box but can be ported to others. If you need help installing Ivan can do the whole install for less than the cost of the license for most software. He can also customize it anyway that you want. Jory Privett WCCS - Original Message - From: G.Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 9:38 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Link? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jory Privett Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 11:41 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus We are in the process of switching to Freeside. I have demoed almost every billing system out there and Freeside seems to be the most flexible and cost effective. Jory Privett WCCS - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:09 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Unless you have in-house developers who are comfortable with doing Windows development (Visual Basic, if I remember correctly) Rodopi is a nightmare. My original ISP used it for about five years, and managed 4000+ customers with it. It has some cool features, but we were never able to get it to do exactly what we wanted to do and there were all kinds of license requirements and extra charges. I think we spent nearly $10K over that five years in licensing alone - not to mention a lot of custom development to get the information out of it that we wanted. We were actually exporting the entire sql database out of MsSQL to a linux box with MySQL every morning so we could get the information we needed out of it. Man, I don't miss those days. The people on my staff who had experience with Rodopi and Freeside would take Freeside any day. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] G.Villarini wrote: What are the hardware requierements? We are trying to choose between the soft pkg or the hosted application Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com http://www.aeronetpr.com/ 787.273.4143 *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Travis Johnson *Sent:* Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:04 PM *To:* WISPA General List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Hi, We have been running Rodopi for almost 8 years now. It works great and we have never had a problem. Travis Microserv G.Villarini wrote: Any info on the pro and cons of both billing platforms ? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com http://www.aeronetpr.com/ 787.273.4143 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus
Jeremy Davis and I work together to do Freeside installs as well - he installs the software, I work on the data transfer and integration with existing systems. We have six or seven running right now and have been using it for about four years. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jory Privett wrote: www.sisd.com/freeside It is open source based on Perl, Apache and Postgres SQL . It runs best on a Debian box but can be ported to others. If you need help installing Ivan can do the whole install for less than the cost of the license for most software. He can also customize it anyway that you want. Jory Privett WCCS - Original Message - From: G.Villarini [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'WISPA General List' wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 9:38 AM Subject: RE: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Link? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jory Privett Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 11:41 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus We are in the process of switching to Freeside. I have demoed almost every billing system out there and Freeside seems to be the most flexible and cost effective. Jory Privett WCCS - Original Message - From: Matt Larsen - Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:09 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Unless you have in-house developers who are comfortable with doing Windows development (Visual Basic, if I remember correctly) Rodopi is a nightmare. My original ISP used it for about five years, and managed 4000+ customers with it. It has some cool features, but we were never able to get it to do exactly what we wanted to do and there were all kinds of license requirements and extra charges. I think we spent nearly $10K over that five years in licensing alone - not to mention a lot of custom development to get the information out of it that we wanted. We were actually exporting the entire sql database out of MsSQL to a linux box with MySQL every morning so we could get the information we needed out of it. Man, I don't miss those days. The people on my staff who had experience with Rodopi and Freeside would take Freeside any day. Matt Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] G.Villarini wrote: What are the hardware requierements? We are trying to choose between the soft pkg or the hosted application Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com http://www.aeronetpr.com/ 787.273.4143 *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Travis Johnson *Sent:* Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:04 PM *To:* WISPA General List *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus Hi, We have been running Rodopi for almost 8 years now. It works great and we have never had a problem. Travis Microserv G.Villarini wrote: Any info on the pro and cons of both billing platforms ? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com http://www.aeronetpr.com/ 787.273.4143 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Rodopi Vs. Platypus
Hi, We have been running Rodopi for almost 8 years now. It works great and we have never had a problem. Travis Microserv G.Villarini wrote: Any info on the pro and cons of both billing platforms ? Gino A. Villarini, Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aeronetpr.com 787.273.4143 -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
