Hi Matt, I can attest to the corporate attitude comment - but I can also say that you can find reasonable folks to work with there too. There is an AMS class in Plano later in March for the full SCCP scoop. Regards, Paul -------------------------------------------------------- Paul W. Levering CEO FeatureTel, LLC 919-459-2300 x2310 Fax: 919-882-8893 http://www.featuretel.com/ 3467 Apex Peakway Apex, North Carolina 27502 -------------------------------------------------------- :-) :-) $ "None of us is as good as all of us." - Ray Kroc -- Why Choose FeatureTel? See why the City of Durham chose us: City of Durham<http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&...> -- FeatureTel: Deluxe hosted VoIP at a bargain price - Article at VoIP Planet.com<http://www.voipplanet.com/backgrounders/article.php/3855616> -- Check out what's shakin': Triangle Business Leader Article<https://na4.salesforce.com/sfc/p/300000000zfYijuZtB6iQaX5HIixX5gHjL3X4i4=> -- Got VoIP? TechTalk<http://www.wral.com/business/legacy_local_tech_wire/video/1472637/> Video! _________________________________________________________________________ This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas Sten Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:05 PM To: Matthew S. Crocker Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Looking for opinions of BroadWorks. Matthew, If you're going to be doing significant wholesale minutes, especially if some of your customers have no ability to filter / pre-qualify their traffic, you're going to need some robust SBC deployments with some serious hardware behind it. For the amount of traffic we do, and the customization that we require, Acme has really been the only viable solution for us. We have an extensive farm of them online. We, too, have a Broadsoft Broadworks platform. In hindsight, it might have been a ten pound sledge for a ten penny nail on our network. For the high price, it really would have made more sense for us if there were far more customers on our network with IP phones that wanted fully hosted VoIP. Most SMB/SME with ip-capable PBXes or VoIP IADs feeding legacy PBXes are just as easily (and far more cost efficiently) peered directly with one of the SBC deployments. No complaints about the functionality or stability of the BS-BW, however. -Nick On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Matthew S. Crocker <matthew at corp.crocker.com<mailto:matthew at corp.crocker.com>> wrote: Howdie, I'm the lucky (!!?) owner of a Vocaldata/Tekelec/GENBAND/Broadsoft M6 soft switch. I'm looking at replacing it with a Broadsoft Broadworks switch. Anyone out there familiar with both switches? Any opinions of the stability/feature set of Broadworks would be welcome! If you have Broadworks, which SBC are you using? Anyone using OpenSIPS to front end BWorks? Send me on or off-list responses, your preference. Thanks -Matt -- Matthew S. Crocker President Crocker Communications, Inc. PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 http://www.crocker.com P: 413-746-2760 _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org<mailto:VoiceOps at voiceops.org> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops