[Asterisk-biz] Help needed convincing a big customer.

[Jason Becker]

Hi Willem,

Willem de Groot wrote:

> My current customer (neither pragmatist nor early adopter) with an 
> estimated 5000+ endpoints has another requirement. Before giving 
> Asterisk a Go in a pilot, it would like to see figures that make the 
> quality of the Asterisk platform explicit. It would certainly help the 
> speed of adoption of Asterisk, if figures of large deployments are 
> published. The fact that these figures are not available, could mean that

What kind of "figures"? Maybe you could work with your customer to do an 
OSMM assessment.

>    * there currently are no bigger deployments than a few hundred
>      endpoints, or
>    * large companies see their asterisk deployment as a strategic asset
>      and thus do not wish to publish this information.

I definitely think it is the latter. I've heard mention that a number of 
CLECs use *. You could perhaps approach Digium to see if they will 
disclose who they are but I suspect that Digium is not at liberty to say.

> 
> What is your opinion about this? Furthermore, would you be willing to 
> post some facts of your largest implementations (# of endpoints, total 
> running time so far, # of incidents) to this list, which could be used 
> to convince potential new customers? If we could manage to build such a 
> reference list, it could be beneficial to everyone. The more references, 
> the better...

Our target market has been small business and therefore we do not have 
any large installs. We're turning our attention to bigger deployments, I 
think there is lots of opportunity for * as middleware for example.

Regards,

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Jason Becker
Director & CEO
Coalescent Systems Inc.
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