[VoiceOps] Acquire MetaSwitch

[Jawaid Bazyar]

Well, I was more thinking, would a Rural ILEC pay the large capital expense
to forklift to another on-premise solution when that solution stands a good
chance of getting EOL'd in the next few years too? That's got to be on
their minds, whether *any* of the legacy switch platforms / vendors even 1)
care about voice or 2) will support it indefinitely.

I suspect the economics of the industry are against this business model
(proprietary, on-premise switch, large capex) continuing.

But I want to know what everyone thinks. This turned into a great convo!

Jawaid


On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 4:38 PM Jeff Shultz via VoiceOps <
voiceops at voiceops.org> wrote:

> Near here a local rural ILEC that has a C15 has moved all the voice
> customers to Voyant/Sinch/Intelliquent VOIP. For all I know the C15 is for
> sale. They were also the first place to go all-fiber in the surrounding
> area.
> Don't discount the buying power of a rural ILEC - it can be surprising.
>
> My own local rural ILEC will have its C15 for some time to come I believe.
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 12:51 PM Jawaid Bazyar via VoiceOps <
> voiceops at voiceops.org> wrote:
>
>> I have a use case. The use case is, be in a position to take customers
>> tomorrow on a 5/9's platform.
>>
>> One alternative is Ribbon: that solution is out of my price range, and,
>> likely out of price range of every rural ILEC I know.
>>
>> A second is Squire, but, I'm not willing to risk it w/o getting my hands
>> on a long-term trial which was requested but not offered.
>>
>> The final alternative is to throw into developing one, likely in two
>> phases. The orchestration and front end of the Elephant Talk project is
>> complete, now just need to settle on a production backend.
>>
>>
>>
>
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