On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Lee Tannenbaum wrote:
Jonathon,
I am not sure your exact needs re capacity, but we do have a very low cost SBC software only SBC. When we acquired Covergence we picked up a full feature SBC which will do all of your needs out of the box (or off the shelf - so to speak). This is a software only feature and is called the NNOSE.
Acme packet does not sell this software directly and it can only be purchased through our channels of distribution. It starts at about $3K for a minimum configuration for about 25 sessions. Its maximum capacity is 500 sessions and you can upgrade in blocks of 10 (maybe it's 25)? Anyhow, it is a known product which requires little to no work to make work.
We use both Covergence and Acme in our network, I must admit, I am very very happy with the Covergence software solution. We spent a long time working on doing this ourselves with open source solutions. Going with a real SBC was totally worth it. We are not against open source, in fact we have contributed to over a dozzen projects. We run everything we do on open source XEN and use Gluster and DRBD heavily.
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