[VoiceOps] Switch Vendor follow up

[Peter Fabian]

The broadsoft/acme combo for us works pretty well.  I really like the Acme
SBCs as they provide a ton a flexibility during interop's.


Peter Fabian | Senior Voice Engineer | Telesphere | P: 4803857059 | F:
4803857079



On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Nicholas Sten <nicksten at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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