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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Scott Berkman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 01, 2011 9:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Kevork Belian'; voiceops@voiceops.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [VoiceOps] I need feedback about Sonus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Sonus is top of the line and most of the major IP carriers have migrated to Sonus from whatever else they used to run.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Like many of the best in breed, they aren’t cheap (hardware or support), but its reliable and very scalable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I haven’t worked with the NBS SBC but it’s fairly widely deployed now as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If they are a little too high end for you, I’d recommend looking at Metaswitch, but of course the best platform will depend on what you need.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> -Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevork Belian<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 01, 2011 5:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'voiceops@voiceops.org'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [VoiceOps] I need feedback about Sonus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Currently we are running Cisco PGW-based voice network and we are thinking of migarting to another platform.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I saw a presentation of Sonus and it looks feature rich patform.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I would like some feedback if anyone has experience with Sonus (for both TDM and VoIP.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Has any one used their SBC? any thoughts?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">Kevork Belian</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">Senior Network Engineer
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">The Maritime Centre,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">141 Omonoia Avenue,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">e-mail:
<a href="mailto:kevork@francoudi.com">kevork@francoudi.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="outbind://119/www.thunderworx.com"><span lang="EN">www.thunderworx.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt">tel.: (+357) 25867136<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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