[asterisk-biz] Government contract

[Alistair Cunningham]

Andrew,

I'm sorry to say that we cannot give you an idea of pricing until we 
have an idea what sort of system you're interested in. Enswitch systems 
vary so widely in terms of size and features that there is not one 
single price. Indeed, for some configurations, we don't even offer the 
systems directly, but only through our partners.

We introduced pricing in multiple currencies last year at the request of 
our customers. It makes them more comfortable to having pricing in their 
own currencies.

Alistair Cunningham
+1 888 468 3111
+44 20 799 39 799
sip:acunningham at integrics.com
http://integrics.com/


Checkov, Andrew wrote:
> Hello Alistair,
> 
> Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 5:35:33 PM, you wrote:
> 
> AC> Checkov, Andrew wrote:
>  AC> Please check our Enswitch product:
>>> AC> http://integrics.com/products/enswitch/
>>>
>>> AC> On this page you will find links to a list of features and working demo
>>> AC> of the web interface. It's in production today at over 20 carrier
>>>
>>> Could you give idea on pricing for Virtual PBX solution?
> 
> AC> Andrew,
> 
> AC> So that we can give you an estimate of system size and costs, can you
> AC> please give us some more details of your project:
> If I'm interested in idea of Porsche pricing every auto dealer will answer me
> - it will starts from $...K depending on options.
> 
> Anyway I will answer your questions..
> 
> AC> - What services do you plan to offer your customers?
> Virtual PBX - the same as demonstrated on your demo site. I have not
> found any other demo...
> 
> AC> - How many users and concurrent calls should the initial system
> AC> support? Do you expect this to rise in future?
> I understand that even the most powerful server in the world cannot
> process thousands of simultaneous calls. So I'm interested in capacity
> of your _initial_ configuration with functionality stated in answer to Q1.
> 
> AC> - Is redundancy and failover important?
> Yes - but I'm interested in _idea of pricing_ WITH and WITHOUT
> redundancy. I understand that in case of telecom and computer
> equipment cost of redundancy can be calculated as AxB, where B is cost
> of the system without redundancy and B is something about 0.5..1.2
> 
> AC> - How do you plan to connect to the PSTN? If you're not sure, we can
> AC> help you with this.
> Connection to PSTN will be done through external voip gateways eg
> Cisco AS5400.
> 
> AC> - What country are you in, and what currency should we quote in?
> I'm from Russia. I don't understand the question about currency - if
> you invoice will be issued in GBP - it will be paid in GBP, if it
> will be issued in Mongolian Tugrics - it will be paid in required currency.
> I'm afraid that martians are not within subscribers of this maillist.
> 
> AC> Once we have these sorted, we can recommend a suitable system, and give
> AC> you pricing details. If you have further questions in the meantime,
> AC> please don't hesitate to contact us.
> OK - I just want to remind that my initial question was very simple - what
> is the _idea of price_ - the same as the question about Porsche... And I'm
> very disappointed that this very simple question results in answering
> to this survey.
> 
> AC> Alistair Cunningham
> AC> +1 888 468 3111
> AC> +44 20 799 39 799
> AC> sip:acunningham at integrics.com
> AC> http://integrics.com/
> 
> 
>