+1 for 2600hz / Kazoo. Vinix (disclosure, my company) is a proven and now profitable model using this platform. www.vinixglobal.com. Good luck!
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 16, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Fred Posner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another +1 here for open source. > > I came to the open source side after working with Broadsoft and Acme > Packet... finding out that not only could we reduce unnecessary costs > with an open source model, we could also improve the customer experience. > > Projects such as Asterisk, Kamailio, and FreeSWITCH are mature, tested, > and trusted by large institutions, carriers, governments, and more. > > If you don't want to build your own, there's great products out there > building on top of open source, such as: > > CSRP > http://www.csrpswitch.com/ > high-performance SIP "Class 4" call routing platform for VoIP service > providers of all kinds > > Kazoo/2600Hz > http://www.2600hz.com/ > > and... of course... you can always build your own (or hire a consultant > to help you). > > --fred > http://palner.com > > >> On 3/15/17 10:51 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: >> Since we work predominantly with service providers that take open-source >> approaches, we would be remiss not to plug that as an approach here. >> It's taken by a significant percentage of the industry. >> >> No, open source is definitely not free. But to those accustomed to a >> Broadsoft-type experience, I think there are a lot of misconceptions >> about it that stem from a lack of familiarity with how to approach the >> open product ecosystem. There's a perception that it's "highly >> technical" or, "Okay, I got FreeSWITCH to compile. Now what?" >> >> In reality, there are _lots_ of "packaged" answers to this problem, if >> you're just willing to look. If you don't want to build anything >> yourself, there are many good commercial systems built on top of an >> open-source technology stack. They cost some money, but nothing on the >> order of the big brands, and are competitive and growing in the larger >> operator and enterprise markets. Example: >> >> https://integrics.com/enswitch/ >> >> It's built on top of Asterisk, Kamailio and MySQL, but very turn-key. >> >> If you have the engineering core competency to build something yourself, >> the ROI is excellent. Yes, there's a cost and a GTM lag, but once you >> sink the cost, nobody's going to hit you up for $MEGABUCKS for another >> 100 seat licences ever again. And again, it doesn't mean you have to >> write a million LOC multitenant software product yourself. >> >> There are lots of people on this list who provide hosted PBX with >> Asterisk or FreeSWITCH and have not had to do this. There are many >> approaches; you can certainly roll a home-spun multi-tenant platform if >> you really want to, but you can also sell individual instances of >> ready-to-go PBX distributions to customers inside a virtualised or >> containerised environment. In the latter, the port density / unit >> economics relative to hardware are excellent. You can put 100+ such PBXs >> on a single commodity box. Automating deployment with all the tooling >> out there these days isn't that hard. A lot of the tools already exist >> in FOSS land, if you just look around. And you can use feature-rich (and >> easy white-labelled) PBX distributions such as FreePBX or FusionPBX out >> of the box. Just Google around. >> >> The companies who have put a little bit of work into this have >> definitely forked out some CAPEX (mainly engineering time or >> consultants), but their ongoing OPEX commitments are comically low, and >> accordingly, their gross margins and cash flow are that much the better >> for it. What's more, the sunk cost tends to be largely fixed, so your >> ROI gets better and better with subscriber growth. >> >> It's not for everyone. Some organisations are sales-heavy cultures best >> suited to selling cookie-cutter products and don't want to do anything >> nerdy, or can't. But there are lots of people on this list making >> excellent money with open source, and I count some of them among our >> customer base (though we are not in the C5/hosted PBX platform >> business). >> >> -- Alex >> > _______________________________________________ > VoiceOps mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
