[asterisk-biz] Similar product like Enswtich from Integrics

[Alistair Cunningham]

Marco,

Certainly; I've sent you an email off-list.

Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
+44 20 799 39 799
http://integrics.com/


Marco Teixeira wrote:
> 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/
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