On 11/02/2015 10:19 AM, Peter Rad. wrote:
To support software you have to have revenue. Hence, per seat licensing or maintenance fees. BSFT may be expensive but it has proven to scale - over 1M trunks from XO and WIND and 10K seats added per month by an MSO. You pay for that. That said. You don't need something that would scale like that.
BSFT isn't the only thing that scales into those kinds of numbers. Although we've transitioned out of the consulting business by and large, we've been building open-source platforms with those kinds of port densities for years. Now, most customers imagine they'll hit those kinds of numbers and actually don't get anywhere near them--turns out getting 1M endpoints is really, really hard--but architecture ask was always to support them. In my eyes, the argument against BSFT isn't so much against maintenance fees or even per-seat licencing, but just price relative to value. Considering it provides formulaic POTS & Key replacement, friends don't let friends buy Broadsoft. -- Alex -- 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/