[Asterisk-Biz] SS7 available for Asterisk

[Markku Korpi]

Michael is completely correct.
We analyze each SS7 project inquiry individually and provide our quote 
to them based on the network structure and amount of work, maintenance, 
etc.  We did this for many inquiries over the past few days. In small 
systems the price per E1/T1 is obviously different than in large ones. 
The quote someone was kind enough to publish was a small system license 
fee that included SS7 SW maintenance for one year. I hope that clarifies.

What does it mean that we are providing our solution outside of GPL?
It means that we are and will be supporting Asterisk by both using the 
Digium HW and by paying license fees to Digium. This is the way and 
strategy of our small team to fund contributions by others (and by 
ourselves!) to Asterisk Open Source. Additionally this is our 
contribution in bringing Asterisk in carrier space and hopefully quite 
substantial over the time.

As Steve Underwood has written on other threads earlier, it should be 
quite obvious that we do not want to publish our SS7 code, because we 
are responsible for the its operation in each project and do not want 
that anyone else makes modifications in it. This is also requirement for 
certifications.

Markku


Michael Bielicki wrote:
> Depends,
> if a product has a hefty service part, as in the case of doing
> different SS7 implementations per country, which often is a basic
> requirement, it is a really tricky thing to specify an off the shelf
> price. On the other hand I tend to agree that not publishing a price
> for a boxed product is a good way to rid yourself of potential
> customers
> 
> cheers
> Michael
> 
> On 4/13/05, Brian West <brian.west at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>>>So can I assume from that response that you don't have a published
>>>price
>>>list?
>>>
>>>- Jeff
>>>
>>
>>Usually when a company doesn't post prices they wanna get you thru the
>>door and sell it to you at the TOP dollar you're willing to pay.
>>
>>:P
>>
>>/b
>>PS: I dislike companies that don't post prices on their websites.
>>
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