Greg : are you next on Digium's list to acquire?<br><br><b><i>Gregory Boehnlein <damin@nacs.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> > Didn't Mark Spencer recently criticize Fonality's Hosted business<br>> model?<br><br>Switchvox hosted edition allows an ITSP (such as myself) to setup a large<br>box w/ multiple instances of Switchvox running on it, achieving a<br>consolidation ratio of about 20:1 (I.E. 20 Virtual PBX systems on 1 piece of<br>physical hardware). This gives me the ability to control the access to the<br>customer and reduce the delivery of mission critical VoIP over the public<br>Internet. In our case, we slap a box in w/ SV Hosted Edition, and light up<br>20 T-1 lines to 20 branch offices, yet we charge a per-seat cost to the user<br>on a monthly basis. They benefit from not having any physical equipment on<br>site, and we benefit because we can reduce the
amount of equipment in our<br>datacenter (power, cooling, cabling needs) by a factor of 20.<br><br>I believe that Fonality's hosted model makes the re-seller host on equipment<br>in Fonality's datacenter, which means you have to traverse the public<br>internet (w/ no QOS) to reach their equipment. Please, someone correct me if<br>I'm wrong?<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>--Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com--<br><br>asterisk-biz mailing list<br>To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:<br> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz<br></blockquote><br><p> 
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