[asterisk-users] Cisco vs Asterisk

[Senad Jordanovic]

T G wrote:
> I'm a CCIE and CCVP. I have worked in the Cisco TSBU on both CCM and 
> Telepresence systems I have two IP patents for the VoiP Lite protocols 
> and have been designing and building OSS IPBXs for companies including 
> Google going back to 2001.
>  
> I'm not mentioning any of that to be jerk I mentioned it to say I'm as 
> qualified as anyone to to compare the CCM and OSS servers.
>  
> The only fair way to compare the two is a list of weights features, for 
> example if cost is your biggest feature then OSS is better, if support 
> is your biggest feature than Cisco wins.
>  
> When a customer is comparing the costly (TCO) and best supported systems 
> in the world with hundreds of thousands installed systems for the large 
> global companies on the planted backed by 54,000 employees and over $25b 
> in the bank vs, a FREE system with one layer of support maybe two layers 
> of support, the features don't even come in the evaluation in my opinion.
>  
> I once asked a manager why did you buy the CCM and he said no one ever 
> got fired for buying Cisco if anything wrong, If push the OSS and it 
> goes I could loose my job.
>  
> I would get a list of the important features, because there is no answer 
> to your question of which is better.
>  
>

What you mentioned above is mostly correct presuming you are referencing
OSS being provided by an organisation with limited resources and perhaps 
limited experience in OS.

Spin that into a perspective of a well organised company harvesting full 
potential of OS, adding its own proprietary software level allowing it 
to offer value products and EXCELLENT support, then I will strongly 
disagree with you.

In particular where customer solution isn't just a solution, but rather 
its products and people becomes your business's communications partner.



Senad
www.bicomsystems.com