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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">We’ve been on Meta for about 15 years as well (DMS10 network prior). I believe we received our gear towards the end of 2006 and commissioned Q1 2007.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">We’re a fairly small shop. We have EAS, N-Series (Conference/MOH), SAS, a single Perimeta, CFS and two UMG. We just did a UMG refresh out of the legacy 3510 to the newer ATCA platform.
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We’ve looked at Ribbon off and on over the years but haven’t seen a driving reason to change. We quoted their robocall solution and it was a bit ridiculous in my opinion. I believe it was even more than what Metaswitch wanted for their solution with no additional
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">I do wish Meta would lower support costs a bit.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> VoiceOps <voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Mike Hammett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 17, 2021 11:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> voiceops@voiceops.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [VoiceOps] Vendor Pros\Cons<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We've been running Metaswitch for 15 years and are looking to refresh what we have.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Who else operates at that tier? I'm talking to Ribbon. I'm hesitant to talk to to Broadsoft because they're part of Cisco, but if I should, I should...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Obviously, there are rather limited venues to gain third-party feedback on the platforms, so I figured I'd ask here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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