[Freeswitch-users] GUI

[David Villasmil]

Oh! And something else, Mera says they have 1000+ developers... well the
Opensource community have MILLIONS!


On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:19 PM, David Villasmil <
david.villasmil.work at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would never BUY a Mera, I have lots of experience with Mera, and although
> the system is not bad at all, IMHO it is way too expensive given all the
> OpenSource projects out there. AFAIK, FS can hold at least 300+ simultaneous
> calls. But even if there wasn't a FS, there's Openser and there's Asterisk.
> With OpenSer and FS or Asterisk you can easily create something stable,
> scalable and programmable for any needs you might have in the future,
> something you (at least in principle) don't have with Mera. With OpenSer+FS
> or Openser+Asterisk you can do ANY amount of calls you want, its just a
> matter of having the time to create all the extras you need, like billing
> (but CDRTool is out there) and such.
>
> And you can donate a small percentage of whatever you were planning to
> spend on the Mera to the FS/OpenSER/Asterisk projects.
>
> ;-)
>
> Just a thought!
>
> Have fun integrating them!
>
> David
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Jair Santos <jairds at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>>  Hello ,
>>
>> I would like to share with you the email below that I exchanged with
>> the representative of Mera Systems. I was about to evaluate their product
>>  when I stumbled with FS. He, of course, is trying to say that FS is not
>> able to support more than 300 simultaneous calls and that I should buy their
>> product.
>>
>> Anyway, the intention is only to ask for some comments from the guys who
>> really know how FS behave in a production environment.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Jair Santos
>>
>>
>>
>>  Hi Jair,
>>
>> We have over 1000 high-end developers on staff in Russia, we write
>> software for Nortel (Meridian PBXes), Siemens, Alcatel, Ericsson, etc. Why
>> would we use Asterisk as a core for our systems? Some of our products
>> can deliver Call Per Second rates up to 1000, I guess about 50 times more
>> than Asterisk :)))
>>
>> Might be that someone telling this to you mixed us with PortaOne, a
>> Ukrainian developer. They, indeed, use Asterisk and SER in their products,
>> like most other companies selling "their" switching solutions.
>>
>> In any case, as a start-up the path you are taling is reasonable, but I
>> really doubt you will stay on Freeswitch once you hit 300 calls in peak. Or
>> - you will need to run lots of unbinded servers with separate IPs, each
>> supporting some 300 calls.
>>
>> Dmitry.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- *From:* Jair Santos <jairds at shaw.ca>
>> *To:* 'Dmitry Stafeev' <dmitry.stafeev at merasystems.ca>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:59 PM
>> *Subject:* RE: New Registration at mera-systems.com (from Canada)
>>
>> What we've  heard is that it is much better than Asterisk which I guess is
>> the base of your system.
>>
>> The information from the FS home page.
>>
>>  Performance
>>
>>    - Tested under load for over 100 hours
>>    - 10,000,000+ calls
>>    - At rates exceeding 50 CPS
>>
>> Performance will vary depending on application. You will need to test for
>> your particular situation.
>> Retrieved from "http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Specsheet"
>>
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