[VoiceOps] Looking for opinions of BroadWorks.

[Beth Johnson]

Run the oldest code you can stomach and it'll work well enough. Just be
ready to smile when you pay huge bonuses to your BW sales rep for the
singular privilege of joining their extended QA department, and expect it to
get worse in r17.













On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Paul Levering <paul at featuretel.com> wrote:

>  Hi Matt,
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> I can attest to the corporate attitude comment – but I can also say that
> you can find reasonable folks to work with there too.
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> There is an AMS class in Plano later in March for the full SCCP scoop.
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> Regards,
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> Paul
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> 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.
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> Matthew,
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> 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.
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> 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
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>  On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Matthew S. Crocker <
> matthew at corp.crocker.com> wrote:
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> Howdie,
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>  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
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