+10,000, but the complete failure among Bellhead/ex-ILEC/traditional telco types to comprehend this is why we're effectively shut out of that market. :-) -- Alex?Balashov?|?Principal?|?Evariste?Systems?LLC 303?Perimeter?Center?North,?Suite?300 Atlanta,?GA?30346 United?States Tel:?+1-800-250-5920?(toll-free)?/?+1-678-954-0671 (direct) Web:?http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/ Sent?from?my?BlackBerry. ? Original Message ? From: Peter Beckman Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 15:39 To: Alex Balashov Cc: Peter E; voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Which Softswitch? Better not use SIP, it is an open standard. Better not use DNS and BIND, it's both an open standard and open source. Better not use nginx or Apache, they are both open source. Better not use MySQL or Postgres, they are both open source. Better not use SMTP or postfix or mailman, they use open standards and are open source. Oh wait, you just did, by sending this email to this list. Your argument that open source software is not good enough for your production environment says you know little about how the production Internet is powered. Amazon Web Services started with Xen and MySQL (and still use it today). I'd say their production environment is pretty critical to much of the Internet. Dismissing all open source software and solutions out of hand seems to miss the understanding about paid support and open source solutions: "If there is a problem, yo, I'll solve it." Not "And I will wait, I will wait for you." of proprietary closed source vendors. "Ice Ice" Mumford Beckman On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Alex Balashov wrote:
Also, I cannot agree with the stance than open source technologies are unsuitable for core softswitches.
All open source engines out there today are just technology cores; a great deal of middleware, integration and application is required to turn them into service delivery platforms. ?That makes them a lot like the commercial protocol stacks, e.g. Radvision, used in commercial products.
Architecture is of the essence. A well-architected, clusterable Freeswitch platform (or, say, Kamailio, as in our case) is much more reliable and capable than a badly implemented commercial platform with crappy vendor support.
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