[asterisk-biz] "Whats New at Digium the Asterisk Company"

[Paul]

Probably not. They need to diversify. They will now buy a company
producing those pay phone directory binders. Also, those coiled handset
cords with the swivel connector could be a good investment.

Kim Joung-il wrote:

> Greg : are you next on Digium's list to acquire?
>
> */Gregory Boehnlein <damin at nacs.net>/* wrote:
>
>     > Didn't Mark Spencer recently criticize Fonality's Hosted business
>     > model?
>
>     Switchvox hosted edition allows an ITSP (such as myself) to setup
>     a large
>     box w/ multiple instances of Switchvox running on it, achieving a
>     consolidation ratio of about 20:1 (I.E. 20 Virtual PBX systems on
>     1 piece of
>     physical hardware). This gives me the ability to control the
>     access to the
>     customer and reduce the delivery of mission critical VoIP over the
>     public
>     Internet. In our case, we slap a box in w/ SV Hosted Edition, and
>     light up
>     20 T-1 lines to 20 branch offices, yet we charge a per-seat cost
>     to the user
>     on a monthly basis. They benefit from not having any physical
>     equipment on
>     site, and we benefit because we can reduce the amount of equipment
>     in our
>     datacenter (power, cooling, cabling needs) by a factor of 20.
>
>     I believe that Fonality's hosted model makes the re-seller host on
>     equipment
>     in Fonality's datacenter, which means you have to traverse the public
>     internet (w/ no QOS) to reach their equipment. Please, someone
>     correct me if
>     I'm wrong?
>