<div dir="ltr"><div>I too have been trying to get a software-only eval of Acme and have been stonewalled by an unresponsive sales team. Sonus has been OK but a bit slow. Sansay, on the other hand, has been very responsive and has aggressive pricing, a good UI and a solid feature set, although they are small.<br>
<br>We are also in the ~150-200 concurrent session land -- too small for huge, too big to use open-everything -- and believe that the "virtual SBC" concept is incredibly hot and we *really* want it ... but ... it's really hard to get. Everyone wants to sell a box (sansay/sonus), just isn't selling anything (acme), or has targeted virtual SBC at huge networks instead of small (metaswitch).<br>
<br></div>Let me know how it goes for you!<br><div><br> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Robert Kulagowski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rkulagow@gmail.com" target="_blank">rkulagow@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Other than Acme Packet, has anyone else deployed something like a<br>
Sonus? The merger with Oracle seems to be slowing things down over<br>
there, and I may not be able to get equipment from the Demo Depot<br>
until after they're done merging, and in the 3 weeks since our meeting<br>
the AP sales guy still hasn't gotten me a copy of the "software only"<br>
SBC to even start an eval even though I keep pestering him.<br>
<br>
Something that can do 200 simultaneous sessions is what we're looking<br>
for, G.711, no fancy transcoding required.<br>
<br>
I found a SBC comparison report, but it's $3400, so a bit expensive,<br>
but the executive summary put Sonus as their choice.<br>
<br>
If you have experience with multiple SBCs and can go into why one and<br>
not another then that's an added bonus.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
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