Yes we are still on Synergy as well, but are currently planning our move away, and given our experiences with the Broadsoft team and their migratory offer of "back a dump truck full of cash up to our front door and we will forget you initially bought a competing product" It looks like Metaswitch might be the path we take. We have seriously evaluated building our own softswitch as well, but ultimately when you factor in the ongoing increase in manpower costs for development staff, as well as the lost time just to build a product equivalent to what we have today from a feature perspective, it makes a purchase decision much more palatable. On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 11:49 -0400, katia wrote:
Hi
Guess since no one else responded i can rep the Synergy platform :)
We've got the Synergy platform. Haven't moved to another platform yet, still have a bunch of things to consider...
a) we have yet to receive an EOL/EOS notice from BroadSoft. We're told it will be ~2 years but waiting for something official.
b) BroadSoft is working on an ability to migrate the base from the Synergy platform to the BroadWorks platform so will need to see how that works out. I think if you have SIP Trunk customers or SIP Hosted customers you'll be OK but anyone that might be running MGCP the advance features just don't seem to be present on the BroadWorks platform.
c) There aren't a lot of other carrier grade platforms out there... Metaswitch, Sonus ASX, BroadSoft Broadworks are the big ones i can think of -- anyone have any other major vendors they would recommend? -- We are familiar with the BroadWorks platform but we're waiting for release 16 to come out with Sol10/x86 hardware support.
On top of all that, it is extremely costly to move customers from one platform to another so it will take several months to continue the evaluation and if a migration is required probably a couple years past that.
When you factor in ongoing M&S and licensing costs and the need to reduce network costs all the time... sometimes I wonder if building your own soft switch isn't the best route...
Are you still running the Synergy platform or have you already migrated to something new?
-katia
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:32 AM, anorexicpoodle <anorexicpoodle at gmail.com> wrote: I see this list has a lot of Broadsoft users, anyone left running Sylantro? If you were a Sylantro shop until the buyout etc what platform did you move to and what steered the decision?
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