I previously replied off-list. We are very pleased with our deployed equipment, where density, performance, and flexibility exceeded all else in our price range. We service both the wholesale and retail markets with both TDM and Voice, and quite successfully move a massive amount wholesale of traffic with very high and bursty CPS loads while maintaining call high call success rates and quality. Voice Switches: Fully VoIP-enabled Lucent 5010 Compact Switch Session Border Controllers: Acme Packet Feature Server: Broadsoft The Lucents are probably the best bang for the buck, you really have to squeeze as much out of the Broadsoft to make the margins work on some SME customers, and we find that a great many of our wholesale peers like to chew up our expensive Acme ports to scrub their crap traffic for them, but the three have made a fantastic and highly interoperable trifecta. Good luck in your testing and final selections. -Nick On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Tom Pipes <tom.pipes at t6mail.com> wrote:

My previous post regarding our decision leaning towards Metaswitch generated a lot of responses (off list, and on).

It seemed as though most people were happy or elated with Metaswitch. However, I had some direct contacts from a couple of Taqua users, and how they have some big benefits, with regard to Hosted PBX. This is a feature that we are particularly interested in.

Sometimes it's tough to narrow down a vendor when dealing with a potentially complex solution, and you don't know what your experience will be until you have the equipment on-site. That's why I wanted to "poll the audience" to find out what others were using.

Anyways, just wanted to say that I appreciate the feedback, and we are looking further into the Broadsoft/Taqua avenue.

Thanks,

--- Tom Pipes T6 Broadband/ Essex Telcom Inc tom.pipes at t6mail.com

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On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Tom Pipes wrote:

Anyways, just wanted to say that I appreciate the feedback, and we are looking further into the Broadsoft/Taqua avenue.

Highly recommend BroadSoft, it is expensive, but you really get what you pay for with them. As far as SBC we are fans of Covergence and AcmePacket, but now that Acme bought Covergence we are back to only one real SBC vendor. : )

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