[VoiceOps] Sylantro users

[Lee Riemer]

I got the same impression when we met their sales guy two years ago.  We 
just turned up a MG3510 and Metasphere but I haven't felt out the hosted 
side yet to give my opinion.

Lee Riemer - Director IP Voice
Bestline Communications, L.P.

Brandon Buckner wrote:
>
> We are still running Sylantro. We looked into Broadsoft as we manage a 
> BW installation for a customer of ours, but pretty much everyone we 
> talked to was an arrogant #^@& that acted like we owed them our 
> business and really turned us off to them. We already have a 
> Metaswitch for a PSTN gateway so we're looking heavily into their 
> offerings.
>
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> Brandon Buckner
>
> Switching Technician / VoIP Admin
>
> Iowa Network Services
>
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> *From:* voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org 
> [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] *On Behalf Of *katia
> *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009 10:50 AM
> *To:* voiceops at voiceops.org
> *Subject:* [LIKELY JUNK]Re: [VoiceOps] Sylantro users
>
>  
>
> Hi
>
> Guess since no one else responded i can rep the Synergy platform :)
>
> We've got the Synergy platform.  Haven't moved to another platform 
> yet, still have a bunch of things to consider...
>
> a) we have yet to receive an EOL/EOS notice from BroadSoft.  We're 
> told it will be ~2 years but waiting for something official.
>
> b) BroadSoft is working on an ability to migrate the base from the 
> Synergy platform to the BroadWorks platform so will need to see how 
> that works out.  I think if you have SIP Trunk customers or SIP Hosted 
> customers you'll be OK but anyone that might be running MGCP the 
> advance features just don't seem to be present on the BroadWorks platform.
>
> c) There aren't a lot of other carrier grade platforms out there... 
> Metaswitch, Sonus ASX, BroadSoft Broadworks are the big ones i can 
> think of -- anyone have any other major vendors they would recommend?
> -- We are familiar with the BroadWorks platform but we're waiting for 
> release 16 to come out with Sol10/x86 hardware support.
>
> On top of all that, it is extremely costly to move customers from one 
> platform to another so it will take several months to continue the 
> evaluation and if a migration is required probably a couple years past 
> that.
>
> When you factor in ongoing M&S and licensing costs and the need to 
> reduce network costs all the time... sometimes I wonder if building 
> your own soft switch isn't the best route...
>
> Are you still running the Synergy platform or have you already 
> migrated to something new?
>
> -katia
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:32 AM, anorexicpoodle 
> <anorexicpoodle at gmail.com <mailto:anorexicpoodle at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I see this list has a lot of Broadsoft users, anyone left running
> Sylantro? If you were a Sylantro shop until the buyout etc what platform
> did you move to and what steered the decision?
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