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<div><br></div><div>Do you know we have our own VoIP provider called SureVoIP? See <a href="http://www.surevoip.co.uk">http://www.surevoip.co.uk</a></div></div><div><br>On 1 Apr 2013, at 20:20, Alex Balashov <<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>The leader of the Kamailio project, Daniel-Constantin Mierla, just released a surprising statement that casts some doubt on the viability of our new business plan:<br>
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<a href="http://lists.sip-router.org/pipermail/sr-users/2013-April/077314.html">http://lists.sip-router.org/pipermail/sr-users/2013-April/077314.html</a><br>
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Well, this is certainly out of left field. We weren't expecting that.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Alex Balashov <<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word;font-family:sans-serif;margin-top:0px">For immediate release:<br><br>ATLANTA, GA (1 April 2013)--Evariste Systems LLC, an Atlanta-based<br>consultancy specialising in Kamailio-based VoIP infrastructure solutions<br>
for the ITSP and CLEC market, has announced that beginning in the second<br>quarter of 2013, it will be abandoning its Kamailio-based technology<br>portfolio to focus on its new role as a preferred VAR (Value Added<br>Reseller) for Acme Packet (NASDAQ:APKT).<br>
<br>"It is with a heavy heart that we abandon five years of Kamailio-oriented<br>work and the Canonical SIP Routing Platform product derived from it,"<br>said Alex Balashov, the principal of the company.<br><br>
"However, the reality is that investment in open-source VoIP technology<br>is a dead end. From a technological point of view, we have lagged very<br>badly in meeting the needs of today's sophisticated VoIP market, and
it's<br>time to cut our losses. Asterisk, Kamailio, FreeSWITCH--all this stuff<br>just hasn't kept up with the pace of evolution of 3GPP, ETSI, and ITU<br>standards. We are tired of saying 'sorry, we don't support IMS or<br>
H.323' to our resultingly dwindling customer base. Does anyone<br>actually run an all-SIP network?"<br><br>Starting in early April, Evariste will begin providing value-added<br>consultancy related to the implementation of the Acme Packet Net-Net<br>
Session Director. In Balashov's view, "the Net-Net SD is the only<br>product capable of meeting the perimeter security, routing and peering<br>needs of today's VoIP service delivery environment."<br><br>
Fred Posner, the director of Team Forrest, a Palner Group integration<br>and consultancy operation based in the Jacksonville, Florida area,<br>agreed:<br><br>"SIP is a tiny piece of the telephony puzzle. The big boys of<br>
ClueCon [an interoperator revenue-sharing consortium] want
DIAMETER-based<br>interdomain peering policy control, H.323, MGCP, and IMS. IMS is pretty<br>much how VoIP architecture is done now. We got out of the Asterisk<br>business just in time, right before Mitel swallowed the PBX world.<br>
I'm glad to see Evariste is finally seeing the light, and I'm sure its<br>shareholders are too."<br><br>Posner also believes Evariste's lack of support for TDM interfaces<br>accounted for dwindling market share.<br>
<br>"Have you seen CSRP? It's SIP in, SIP out. Real inter-LATA haulers<br>and application service providers use TDM and leave SIP for things<br>like voicemail. I can't plug my DS3s into a SIP proxy, so I just<br>
don't think there was any real demand for the sort of thing they<br>were doing."<br><br>Noting Oracle's US$2.5bn acquisition of Acme Packet in early February,<br>as well as its more recently announced buyout of Tekelec, a Siris<br>
Capital Group portfolio company, Balashov remarked: "The
obvious<br>shift to an Oracle-centric telephony paradigm was a kind of validation,<br>if you will, of our decision to unload our dead weight and sign on<br>to the revolution in unified communications."<br><br>Sean McCord, of CyCORE Systems, an Atlanta-based software consulting<br>
house and long-time Evariste creditor, agreed that there was a natural<br>synergy between Evariste's shift to Acme Packet and Oracle's dominance<br>of telephony infrastructure.<br><br>"Oracle is a forward-thinking telecom pioneer," McCord said.<br>
"The telephone is Oracle, and Oracle is the telephone."<br><br>Balashov also noted that a tightening regulatory environment and new<br>consumer protection rules helped hasten the decision to embrace the<br>more professionalised Acme Packet product portfolio.<br>
<br>John Knight, Senior Engineer at Hendersonville, NC-based Ringfree<br>Communications, one of Evariste's oldest channel partners, said:<br>"As one of Evariste's
long-time disties, we were jittery about exposure<br>to CALEA and the QA requirements of large call centers. We tried to<br>make do, but at some point we just had to put the relationship on<br>stop. I'm all in favour of open, but there's just no open-source<br>
software out there that does call recording, and that's the bottom line<br>for us. In the end, we had to restructure some debt just to get<br>bondholders to let us source a proprietary solution on tick."<br><br>
In a thematically related move, Evariste will be dropping its heavy<br>use of the open-source PostgreSQL database manager for its rating and<br>reporting tools.<br><br>"The business case for standardising on Oracle's databases could not be<br>
clearer. With Oracle Database 11g's support of warehousing and OLTP,<br>the real mystery is why we didn't go there sooner," said Balashov.<br><br>Carlos Alvarez, a director at Televolve, a growing Phoenix-area VoIP<br>
operator, recently
spearheaded a move away from Evariste's PostgreSQL-<br>based call detail record (CDR) storage solution to one running atop<br>Microsoft SQL Server 2008.<br><br>Alvarez commented: "Evariste had a nice idea, in a cute, David-and-Goliath<br>
kind of way, but we're processing over five hundred phone calls a day<br>now. Are we really going to store those kinds of volumes in an<br>open-source database? Might as well just put it all in flat text<br>files at that point. Phone service is an uptime game. You can't<br>
compromise on this stuff. What if someone needs to call 911?"<br><br>Asked to summarise his expectations, Balashov said: "I hope this turns us<br>around in a big way. We were wrong to think that nobody cared about<br>
stuff like P-CSCFs, or that you could deliver even rudimentary VoIP<br>to the premise without the expansive feature set of a comprehensive<br>solution like the Net-Net SBC. I can only hope the market forgives us<br>for betting on
'SIP Express Router' and its ilk back in the day, and<br>gives us a chance to do it right in round two."<br><br>Fred Posner, of Team Forrest, added: "Besides, if you look at the Git<br>repository, Kamailio hasn't had any code contributions in at least five<br>
years. It seems everyone's figured out this pure SIP stuff is defunct<br>and hokey."<br><br><hr><br>VoiceOps mailing list<br><a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a><br>
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Alex Balashov - Principal<br>
Evariste Systems LLC<br>
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Suite 106<br>
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United States<br>
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