[VoiceOps] Acquire MetaSwitch

[Jawaid Bazyar]

I meant to add, I understood your point, and what you said is true. And a
roll-your-own is going to have a flexibility that a legacy platform will
never have.

That "second phase" is going to be about delivering radical next-gen
capabilities, which certainly can't be done with legacy platforms.

Jawaid


On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 4:42 PM Alex Balashov via VoiceOps <
voiceops at voiceops.org> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 13, 2024, at 4:07 PM, Jawaid Bazyar <jawaid at bazyar.net> wrote:
> >
> > That is generally true, though in our case the front-end/orchestration
> layer is backend-platform agnostic. This was intentional, and gives
> operators the ability to change a subscriber's provisioning from one
> platform to another with a few clicks. That way we're not tied-in. Of
> course this creates some additional complexity, but, gives us capabilities
> I haven't seen offered elsewhere.
>
> I don't know your specific platform and have no reason to doubt the
> veracity of this.
>
> However, speaking rather generally from my own experience,
> backend-agnosticism--as a special case of modularity, functional
> decomposition, loose coupling, high cohesion, etc.--is one of those themes
> that shows up in technology over and over, and is never quite delivers what
> it promises.
>
> In theory, the UI is agnostic to the backend and can drive anything with
> an API-compatible surface. In principle, ORMs are supposed to abstract over
> RDBMs so that one is as good as another. In reality, there are more
> dependencies and hooks here than meets the eye, and actually ripping out
> the incumbent backend, together with its implied promises and contracts and
> whatever, will expose that.
>
> Your platform may be different, but if so, it would be the first that I've
> seen. I wouldn't underestimate the staying power and gravitational field of
> whatever switch platform you go with.
>
> -- Alex
>
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