[asterisk-biz] Virtual PBX / online IVRS solution for end customers

[Alistair Cunningham]

Andrew,

Can you please explain:

1. What is unreasonable about my requests for more information?

2. Why you forwarded a private email I sent you off-list to the list? In 
my opinion, this is unethical.

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/
> 
> 
>