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<p>The stand-alone voicemail system market seems to have mostly
dried up with Broadworks having their own baked in, and metaswitch
providing their own as well, and none of them being particularly
exciting anyway. Really when most commercial switch providers
started offering their own solutions, the 3rd party market really
dried up. <br>
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<p>Systems ive used: <br>
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<p>Iperia (bought by genband)</p>
<p>CTI2 (bought by audiocodes and put out to pasture)</p>
<p>Metaswitch EAS (a strong system and CAN support non metaswitch
platforms, but priced accordingly)</p>
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<p>Most of them were hideously expensive for what was fundamentally
a open source mashup under the covers, with cryptic "carrier
grade" interfaces anyway. <br>
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<p>Though recently I just built a system using Freeswitch /
Adhearsion / CouchDB to create a dynamically scalable
geo-redundant voicemail ecosystem distributed in AWS. The tech is
out there now to far outstrip the tried and true carrier
solutions. <br>
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<p>Ill make the argument that voicemail is largely a commodity
service, and you could be well served to spend a little on some
up-front engineering and just own a FOSS based system and stop
paying licensing on it. If you are any kind of reasonable size,
your annual licensing note would cover the salary of a full-time
FOSS hoodlum to care for and feed it, or would easily cover the
hours from established consultants to solve the occasional issue.
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/21/2017 6:23 AM, Jeff Anderson
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<div>We are in the market for a new voicemail platform. This vm
platform would be carrier grade for a ILEC/CLEC that uses a
variety of TDM and SIP switches. We want something feature
rich that is SIP based.</div>
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<div>Our current softswitch platform that we are growing is
Broadworks. We would probably want to start around 50K
mailboxes but with the ability to grow much larger as we
consolidate voicemail systems.<br>
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<div>This space is pretty unfamiliar to me so I was wondering if
anyone can share which companies I can begin to research. We
are open to on-prem and hosted (price would be a major factor
on the viability of hosted).</div>
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<div>Also, if you have recommendations to share or know of any
research papers that compares vendor offerings I would much
appreciate it.<br>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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Jeff</div>
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