On 04/02/2010 01:29 PM, J. Oquendo wrote:
Tony: "Ay-ya kid... psst I gots me dis here Acme Packet thing-a-mah-do-dah thing here... Waddya say yous an I makes a deal eh?" John: "Well the EULA says ..." Tony: "Fuggedabout the EULA. EULA, UCLA, NCSA, what does college have to do with THIS eh?... You takes it, you makes some calls, runs just fine"
Agreed. Well, the matter is a little more nuanced than that; highly specialised and idiosyncratic proprietary equipment can be a serious OPEX issue when you really need to figure something out, and/or when you have an emergency. I can't speak to the GUI/EMS, but on the CLI I would not say Acme Packet SBCs are simple to administer. But if you're willing to take the hit as a company and figure it out without the vendor, it's doable. The key variable I've encountered is whether you have people of the right technical calibre to do it. -- Alex Balashov - Principal Evariste Systems LLC 1170 Peachtree Street 12th Floor, Suite 1200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Tel: +1-678-954-0670 Fax: +1-404-961-1892 Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/