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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.<br>
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Lee Riemer - Director IP Voice<br>
Bestline Communications, L.P.<br>
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Brandon Buckner wrote:
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">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. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New";">Switching
Technician / VoIP
Admin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Network Services<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org">voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org">mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org</a>] <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>katia<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August
07, 2009
10:50 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [LIKELY
JUNK]Re:
[VoiceOps] Sylantro users</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi<br>
<br>
Guess since no one else responded i can rep the Synergy platform :)<br>
<br>
We've got the Synergy platform. Haven't moved to another platform yet,
still have a bunch of things to consider...<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
-- We are familiar with the BroadWorks platform but we're waiting for
release
16 to come out with Sol10/x86 hardware support.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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...<br>
<br>
Are you still running the Synergy platform or have you already migrated
to
something new?<br>
<br>
-katia<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style="font-size: 12pt;">On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:32 AM,
anorexicpoodle <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">I see this list has a lot of Broadsoft users,
anyone left running<br>
Sylantro? If you were a Sylantro shop until the buyout etc what platform<br>
did you move to and what steered the decision?<br>
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