<div dir="ltr">Wow, been working all night. First time I got, got in years. LOL.<div><br></div><div style>Thanks and good one,</div><div style>Steve T</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Rizwan Kassim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rizwank@geekymedia.com" target="_blank">rizwank@geekymedia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">I suggest you look at the date. </p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 1, 2013 3:47 AM, "Steve Totaro" <<a href="mailto:stotaro@totarotechnologies.com" target="_blank">stotaro@totarotechnologies.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Best of luck but this is FUD and laughable. If you want, I can do a point by point, but I am sure most Asterisk folks know what is bunk. The most laughable. <div><br></div><div>500 calls a day, seriously? No open source that does call recording? </div>
<div><br></div><div>This "Press Release", if you can call it that, does not belong on the list.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Steve Totaro</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Alex Balashov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com" target="_blank">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
For immediate release:<br>
<br>
ATLANTA, GA (1 April 2013)--Evariste Systems LLC, an Atlanta-based<br>
consultancy specialising in Kamailio-based VoIP infrastructure solutions<br>
for the ITSP and CLEC market, has announced that beginning in the second<br>
quarter of 2013, it will be abandoning its Kamailio-based technology<br>
portfolio to focus on its new role as a preferred VAR (Value Added<br>
Reseller) for Acme Packet (NASDAQ:APKT).<br>
<br>
"It is with a heavy heart that we abandon five years of Kamailio-oriented<br>
work and the Canonical SIP Routing Platform product derived from it,"<br>
said Alex Balashov, the principal of the company.<br>
<br>
"However, the reality is that investment in open-source VoIP technology<br>
is a dead end. From a technological point of view, we have lagged very<br>
badly in meeting the needs of today's sophisticated VoIP market, and it's<br>
time to cut our losses. Asterisk, Kamailio, FreeSWITCH--all this stuff<br>
just hasn't kept up with the pace of evolution of 3GPP, ETSI, and ITU<br>
standards. We are tired of saying 'sorry, we don't support IMS or<br>
H.323' to our resultingly dwindling customer base. Does anyone<br>
actually run an all-SIP network?"<br>
<br>
Starting in early April, Evariste will begin providing value-added<br>
consultancy related to the implementation of the Acme Packet Net-Net<br>
Session Director. In Balashov's view, "the Net-Net SD is the only<br>
product capable of meeting the perimeter security, routing and peering<br>
needs of today's VoIP service delivery environment."<br>
<br>
Fred Posner, the director of Team Forrest, a Palner Group integration<br>
and consultancy operation based in the Jacksonville, Florida area,<br>
agreed:<br>
<br>
"SIP is a tiny piece of the telephony puzzle. The big boys of<br>
ClueCon [an interoperator revenue-sharing consortium] want DIAMETER-based<br>
interdomain peering policy control, H.323, MGCP, and IMS. IMS is pretty<br>
much how VoIP architecture is done now. We got out of the Asterisk<br>
business just in time, right before Mitel swallowed the PBX world.<br>
I'm glad to see Evariste is finally seeing the light, and I'm sure its<br>
shareholders are too."<br>
<br>
Posner also believes Evariste's lack of support for TDM interfaces<br>
accounted for dwindling market share.<br>
<br>
"Have you seen CSRP? It's SIP in, SIP out. Real inter-LATA haulers<br>
and application service providers use TDM and leave SIP for things<br>
like voicemail. I can't plug my DS3s into a SIP proxy, so I just<br>
don't think there was any real demand for the sort of thing they<br>
were doing."<br>
<br>
Noting Oracle's US$2.5bn acquisition of Acme Packet in early February,<br>
as well as its more recently announced buyout of Tekelec, a Siris<br>
Capital Group portfolio company, Balashov remarked: "The obvious<br>
shift to an Oracle-centric telephony paradigm was a kind of validation,<br>
if you will, of our decision to unload our dead weight and sign on<br>
to the revolution in unified communications."<br>
<br>
Sean McCord, of CyCORE Systems, an Atlanta-based software consulting<br>
house and long-time Evariste creditor, agreed that there was a natural<br>
synergy between Evariste's shift to Acme Packet and Oracle's dominance<br>
of telephony infrastructure.<br>
<br>
"Oracle is a forward-thinking telecom pioneer," McCord said.<br>
"The telephone is Oracle, and Oracle is the telephone."<br>
<br>
Balashov also noted that a tightening regulatory environment and new<br>
consumer protection rules helped hasten the decision to embrace the<br>
more professionalised Acme Packet product portfolio.<br>
<br>
John Knight, Senior Engineer at Hendersonville, NC-based Ringfree<br>
Communications, one of Evariste's oldest channel partners, said:<br>
"As one of Evariste's long-time disties, we were jittery about exposure<br>
to CALEA and the QA requirements of large call centers. We tried to<br>
make do, but at some point we just had to put the relationship on<br>
stop. I'm all in favour of open, but there's just no open-source<br>
software out there that does call recording, and that's the bottom line<br>
for us. In the end, we had to restructure some debt just to get<br>
bondholders to let us source a proprietary solution on tick."<br>
<br>
In a thematically related move, Evariste will be dropping its heavy<br>
use of the open-source PostgreSQL database manager for its rating and<br>
reporting tools.<br>
<br>
"The business case for standardising on Oracle's databases could not be<br>
clearer. With Oracle Database 11g's support of warehousing and OLTP,<br>
the real mystery is why we didn't go there sooner," said Balashov.<br>
<br>
Carlos Alvarez, a director at Televolve, a growing Phoenix-area VoIP<br>
operator, recently spearheaded a move away from Evariste's PostgreSQL-<br>
based call detail record (CDR) storage solution to one running atop<br>
Microsoft SQL Server 2008.<br>
<br>
Alvarez commented: "Evariste had a nice idea, in a cute, David-and-Goliath<br>
kind of way, but we're processing over five hundred phone calls a day<br>
now. Are we really going to store those kinds of volumes in an<br>
open-source database? Might as well just put it all in flat text<br>
files at that point. Phone service is an uptime game. You can't<br>
compromise on this stuff. What if someone needs to call 911?"<br>
<br>
Asked to summarise his expectations, Balashov said: "I hope this turns us<br>
around in a big way. We were wrong to think that nobody cared about<br>
stuff like P-CSCFs, or that you could deliver even rudimentary VoIP<br>
to the premise without the expansive feature set of a comprehensive<br>
solution like the Net-Net SBC. I can only hope the market forgives us<br>
for betting on 'SIP Express Router' and its ilk back in the day, and<br>
gives us a chance to do it right in round two."<br>
<br>
Fred Posner, of Team Forrest, added: "Besides, if you look at the Git<br>
repository, Kamailio hasn't had any code contributions in at least five<br>
years. It seems everyone's figured out this pure SIP stuff is defunct<br>
and hokey."<br>
<br>
<br>
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