I almost agree with you, but I think instead of saying "The drawback to Asterisk is you have to add lots of extra stuff" I will say "The drawback to Asterisk is you have to DISABLE a lots of extra stuff". Yes, if you are doing a pure SIP routing, you may disable IAX and all other VoIP protocol you do not need, you may disable all applications you don't use and reduce asterisk to the bare minimum, but are they really hurting you? I cannot compare asterisk to other VoIP software because I just know asterisk, but having something "more" was never been a problem. Problems can arise when you need a feature and you do not have it. We are working in a highly competitive market where we fight to the death for every single customer, trying to pleasant them as much as we can. Often clients have silly requests and I appreciate when I have a software even capable to play chess with the caller while on hold.
Leandro 2014-08-06 17:10 GMT+02:00 Eric Wieling <[email protected]>: > A well spec’d Asterisk box can handle well 500+ calls if audio is not > going through Asterisk. The drawback to Asterisk is you have to add lots > of extra stuff. The few GUIs availabe for Asterisk are all designed for > SMBs, not for a carrier. I love Asterisk, but it would not come close to > fufilling the original poster’s needs for things like SMS (for some values > of “SMS”). > > > > *From:* VoiceOps [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *John > Curry > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 05, 2014 1:52 PM > *To:* 'Chris Carabello'; [email protected] > > *Subject:* 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 > > [image: cid:[email protected].] > > > > *From:* VoiceOps [mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Chris Carabello > *Sent:* Monday, August 4, 2014 8:56 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *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 M&A). 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 <http://www.metaswitch.com>* > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops > >
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