I found really time and resource consuming having an asterisk (even if virtualized) for each client. I see a lots of companies failing when reaching around 40/50 virtual severs. The time needed to maintain all these servers were too big for the money the clients can provide. I think it is more convenient to have a multi tenant setup where a single central asterisk handle all the virtual pbx for the clients. The resources needed for a new client are almost zero and you can acquire even little office with just a couple of phones. Leandro 2014-08-06 19:24 GMT+02:00 Aryn Nakaoka 808.356.2901 <anakaoka at trinet-hi.com
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We use a virtualized asterisk per client - makes feature sets very powerful. Then we have a centralized core for additional features that Asterisk can not provide. Its not auto provisioning, but we're aiming for B2B vs. self-service market. Billing is done via flat rate or A2Billing.
It'll come close to meta switch or broad soft but you will need to service your clients. BUT you wold be 100% opensource.
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On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 6:38 AM, MiRTA PBX team <info at mirtapbx.com> wrote:
I almost agree with you, but I think instead of saying "The drawback to Asterisk is you have to add lots of extra stuff" I will say "The drawback to Asterisk is you have to DISABLE a lots of extra stuff". Yes, if you are doing a pure SIP routing, you may disable IAX and all other VoIP protocol you do not need, you may disable all applications you don't use and reduce asterisk to the bare minimum, but are they really hurting you? I cannot compare asterisk to other VoIP software because I just know asterisk, but having something "more" was never been a problem. Problems can arise when you need a feature and you do not have it. We are working in a highly competitive market where we fight to the death for every single customer, trying to pleasant them as much as we can. Often clients have silly requests and I appreciate when I have a software even capable to play chess with the caller while on hold.
Leandro
2014-08-06 17:10 GMT+02:00 Eric Wieling <EWieling at nyigc.com>:
A well spec?d Asterisk box can handle well 500+ calls if audio is not going through Asterisk. The drawback to Asterisk is you have to add lots of extra stuff. The few GUIs availabe for Asterisk are all designed for SMBs, not for a carrier. I love Asterisk, but it would not come close to fufilling the original poster?s needs for things like SMS (for some values of ?SMS?).
*From:* VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] *On Behalf Of *John Curry *Sent:* Tuesday, August 05, 2014 1:52 PM *To:* 'Chris Carabello'; voiceops at voiceops.org
*Subject:* Re: [VoiceOps] Multi Tenant Commercial Softswitch Besides Broadsoft
Other considerations (cost)
An Asterisk 1U server sotswitch will comfortably handle 100 concurrent calls, as a business grows Additional 1U Servers are added. If a 1U switch would crash, automatic failover to other 1U load balanced softswitch servers. Because of the lower cost entry redundancy in multiple Co-locations is easily accomplished. Live CDR can be pushed to the billing product of your choice.
A class 4 or 5 tandem switch is very expensive. Multiple co-location is next to impossible unless you have seven digits to invest.
John
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*From:* VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org <voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org>] *On Behalf Of *Chris Carabello *Sent:* Monday, August 4, 2014 8:56 PM *To:* voiceops at voiceops.org *Subject:* Re: [VoiceOps] Multi Tenant Commercial Softswitch Besides Broadsoft
Hi,
I?m a new member to the group and happy to contribute to this thread.
For background purposes, Metaswitch has hundreds of service providers globally using our carrier-grade platform to deliver a complete Class 5, Trunking, and Hosted PBX solution and Accession UC Client to a broad range of enterprise customers. We also have a number of service providers who offer a wholesale ?whitelabel? offering as well.
I?ll be happy to address specific questions about the breadth of our solution. Suffice it to say that service providers, large and small, are winning in the market with our feature set. We are also deployed in service providers who offer the same enterprise offering alongside those which is built on other vendors? platforms (as a result of M&A). In other scenarios, service providers have opted to completely migrate from other platforms to Metaswitch.
In other cases, we provide the Class 4, Media Gateway functions (we can talk TDM and SIP), and/or SBC, which has been reviewed favorably by independent analysts and the market alike and can be deployed on HW or virtualized as well.
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