[asterisk-users] Cisco vs Asterisk

[Al lists]

I agree, No manager gets fired even if a Cisco Call Manager goes south.
that's not the case with Asterisk.
With limited experience that i have with both, i hit more bugs using
Asterisk than a CCM, but this is not relevant to your final answer.
If you can afford CCM, and you can live with less flexibility and features,
i would choose Cisco.
If you prefer to have cheaper solution and more features and flexibility,
Asterisk is good.
With Cisco, everything is cisco, handsets are designed for Cisco, it
connects to Exchange much more in depth than even microsoft response point.
unlike Asterisk, unfortunately exchange integration is not something you may
get in close future and that can be a deal breaker for some companies, but
you dont pay per seat license.
and so on.


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Senad Jordanovic <senad at bicom.us> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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