<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Everyone's welcome to their own opinion. I would venture to say 99% of VoIP is on some type of asterisk platform.</div><div><br><div>John<div><a href="http://InteleChoice.us">InteleChoice.us</a></div><div>322 Mall Blvd 190</div><div>Monroeville, Pa 15146</div><div><br></div><div>Ofc 412.307.3600</div><div>eFax 412.380.8701</div><div><br></div></div>On Aug 1, 2014, at 9:49 AM, Alexander Hardie <<a href="mailto:ahardie@bellsouth.net">ahardie@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Asterisk is a fine solution if you have the ability to support it yourself - its Open Source - which means you own the support and any product development. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Also it depends on your service set - if you are hosted only then that's one set of issues - but if you also want to offer SIP trunking with any advanced features then Asterisk is not the right
move.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>The BroadCloud service is white label and can support all the advanced services provided by BroadSoft - understand if you want to fully integrate with a wireless carrier be prepared to move to an MVNO arrangement - you need access to their switch system - its not simply features available on BSFT.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Everything Colton mentioned about the white label service he is currently on is available on BroadSoft form a feature perspective - there is NO lack of features on BroadSoft - just on the vendor providing his white label BSFT service.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>I recommend either a direct inquiry to BroadSoft / BroadCloud or to the wholesaler. The reason BroadSoft
purchase HIPCOM was to enable its customers to move faster with new services. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>alex hardie | <a href="mailto:ahardie@bellsouth.net">ahardie@bellsouth.net</a> | +1 404 229 7635</span></div></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
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--></style><div><div><div><a name="_MailEndCompose" href="" rel="nofollow">We can set up a 100 concurrent redundant asterisk with a billing platform for less than $40 k. It will do SIP Trunking and Hosted. Automatically shut off customers if they don’t pay you. This is a system you would own in your own Colo, not a white label.</a></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">John<br><image003.png></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Arial",
"sans-serif";"><br>322 Mall Blvd., # 190</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Monroeville, Pa. 15146</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Phone 412.307.3600</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">VFax 412.380.8701</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"> </span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">“<b>People say nothing is impossible</b>, but I do nothing every day.” ― A.A. Milne</span></div></div><div><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223)
currentColor currentColor; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-image: none;"><div><b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Max Clark [<a href="mailto:max.clark@gmail.com">mailto:max.clark@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 31, 2014 8:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> John<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [VoiceOps] Multi Tenant Commercial Softswitch Besides Broadsoft</span></div></div></div><div> </div><div><div>That's excellent. You should tell Colton. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br>On Jul 31, 2014, at 5:34 PM, John <<a href="mailto:telecom7@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:telecom7@gmail.com">telecom7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div>We can set up a 100 concurrent redundant asterisk with a billing platform for less than $40
k</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br>On Jul 31, 2014, at 7:15 PM, Max Clark <<a href="mailto:max.clark@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:max.clark@gmail.com">max.clark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><div><div><div>Colton,</div><div><div> </div></div><div><div>Are you on a hosted/white label Broadsoft installation or do you own your own license? I'm curious because I assume that you have a significant investment in your current platform and dumping that investment would require an even larger investment in another platform (not counting the training, migration, etc...). Metaswitch for example is a fantastic platform, but I don't know of any installation running it for less than $250k.</div></div><div><div> </div></div><div><div>I get the idea of switching from Broadsoft to have service differentiation, but I'd counter with two points.
1) Everyone is using Broadsoft because it works, and 2) if you switch to another licensed platform you'd still be competing with other providers using that platform.</div></div><div><div> </div></div><div><div>So if you are really looking for a unique one of a kind platform you'd probably be better served by rolling your own and partnering/paying Sprint for their WMI platform for your mobile needs.</div></div><div><div> </div></div><div><div>Max</div><div><div> </div></div><div><div> </div></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"> </div><div><div>On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Colton Conor <<a href="mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com">colton.conor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><div>So to sum it up, so far I have been recommended the following besides Broadsoft:</div><div><div>
</div></div><div><div>Metaswitch</div></div><div><div>Genband</div></div><div><div><b><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Alianza</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">NetSapiens</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">XCast Labs</span></b></div></div><div><div><b><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">EnSwitch</span></b></div></div><div><div> </div></div><div><div><b><span style="color: rgb(84, 84, 84); font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">Is there anyone else that to add the this list? The must be service provider grade offering the multi tenant functionality, and management features. </span></b></div></div><div><div> </div></div></div><div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
</div><div><div>On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Tim Jackson <<a href="mailto:jackson.tim@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jackson.tim@gmail.com">jackson.tim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div>As far as tricks with a cell client, Accession from Metaswitch is<br>pretty slick there..<br><br>No real SMS integration yet (but you can easily add this since<br>Accession supports XMPP)..</div><div><div><div><br><br><br>On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Colton Conor <<a href="mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com">colton.conor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> To be a little more specific, at minimum the platform should have the<br>> following:<br>> A device manager for phones for automated provisioning and firmware updates<br>> Integrated SMS Functionality<br>> Integrate Cell Phone functionality. I guess an app that allows use of your<br>> cell
phone as an extension, and not just a soft client. Any platform can use<br>> Bria!<br>> All the standard features that Broadsoft at least provides.<br>> Advanced fraud detection!<br>><br>><br>><br>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Colton Conor <<a href="mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:colton.conor@gmail.com">colton.conor@gmail.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>>><br>>> What carrier and service provider multitenant softswitch and pbx systems<br>>> are on the market today besides Broadsoft? We use a Broadsoft solution<br>>> today. We like the redundancy that Broadsoft offers, and the fact that it<br>>> just works. However, they are starting to seriously lack features, and there<br>>> are too many Broadsoft competitors. We are finding that our Broadsoft<br>>> offering is no different than Comcast, Verizon, or other local providers<br>>> that
offer Broadsoft services to.<br>>><br>>> We are really looking for something that integrates well for the mobile<br>>> worker. The ability to use their cell phone with the service is key for us.<br>>> The day's of clients buying $300 Polycom IP phones are slowing down.<br>>> However, people understand the value and are willing to spend $600 on a<br>>> smartphone.<br>>><br>>> What commercial solutions are there?<br>><br>><br>></div></div></div><div><div><div>> _______________________________________________<br>> VoiceOps mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br>> <a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a><br>></div></div></div></div><div>
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