[asterisk-biz] Similar product like Enswtich from Integrics

[Marco Teixeira]

Mr. Alistair Cunningham,

This mail is a personal initiative and does not represent any kind of
position of the company.

I work for a VoIP Telco and i'm in charge of developing a softswitch based
on openser and asteriskb2bua. However, i'm very remitent on security holes
that may have escaped me. 

I'm telling you this, because after seeing this post, the "we give source
code to carriers" caught my attention. In fact one of the aspects that lead
my company to develop it's own in house softswitch, has precisely to do with
that... Flexibility to suite the company needs by altering, if needed, the
source code.

I'm interested in earing from you on the pricing of the ENSWITCH for
carriers. Although we now don't carry that much calls (below 31
simultaneous) we expect to grow very rapidly.

Can you please mail me your pricing options.... We would prefer something
like start with less $$$ and grow as we need paying additional $$$

Regards
Marco

> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces at lists.digium.com] Em nome de 
> Alistair Cunningham
> Enviada: sábado, 9 de Setembro de 2006 11:10
> Para: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion; 
> Mitul Limbani
> Assunto: Re: [asterisk-biz] Similar product like Enswtich 
> from Integrics
> 
> Mitul Limbani wrote:
> > Pros of Remwave:
> > ----------------
> > 
> > a) Source code is available
> 
> It's our policy to offer source code on request to Enswitch carrier 
> edition customers. We appreciate that many enterprise 
> customers cannot 
> be without source code to a core component of their business.
> 
> > b) Based on Oracle as backend, which can help you scale up.
> 
> This does of course greatly reduce the cost benefit of 
> Remwave compared 
> with Enswitch. If database scalability is an issue we have 
> experience in 
> running MySQL in production on Sun and IBM pSeries hardware.
> 
> > Cons of Remwave:
> > ---------------
> > 
> > a) At the moment only Remwave guys know how to get the packages 
> > installed on a fresh server instead of using VMWARE Image.
> > b) Individual packages of required components are not available for 
> > download, and almost zero documentation.
> > 
> > In both the above cases, I think remwave guys might be willing to 
> > provide you with all the support still that wont cost you 
> as much as 
> > Enswitch.
> > 
> > Similar solution can be built otherwise using OpenSER + Asterisk 
> > combination.
> 
> Of course, after all we did it. However, this will definitely be the 
> most expensive option unless you use only a very small fraction of 
> Enswitch's (and probably Remwave's) features. Before we had 
> Enswitch, we 
> did custom solutions for customers, and Enswitch allows us to 
> offer many 
> more features at a lower price, with a very much faster time 
> to market. 
> We're very flexible and open to feature requests (as our reference 
> customers will attest), so I doubt a custom solution will be more 
> flexible either.
> 
> Alistair Cunningham,
> Integrics Ltd,
> +44 20 799 39 799
> http://integrics.com/
> _______________________________________________
> --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com --
> 
> asterisk-biz mailing list
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz