<div dir="ltr">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.<br>
<br>And you can donate a small percentage of whatever you were planning to spend on the Mera to the FS/OpenSER/Asterisk projects.<br><br>;-)<br><br>Just a thought!<br><br>Have fun integrating them!<br><br>David<br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Jair Santos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jairds@shaw.ca">jairds@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font size="2"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma">Hello ,</font></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="2"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma">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 </font> <font color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma">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.</font></span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma"><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma"><span>Anyway, the intention is only to ask for some comments
from the guys who really know how FS behave in a production
environment.</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma"><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma"><span>Thank
you</span></font></div>
<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma"><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma"><span>Jair
Santos</span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span> </span>Hi Jair,
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<div><font size="2">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 :)))</font></div>
<div><font size="2"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Dmitry.</font></div>
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<div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><b>From:</b> <a title="jairds@shaw.ca" href="mailto:jairds@shaw.ca" target="_blank">Jair Santos</a> </div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="dmitry.stafeev@merasystems.ca" href="mailto:dmitry.stafeev@merasystems.ca" target="_blank">'Dmitry Stafeev'</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:59 PM</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> RE: New Registration at <a href="http://mera-systems.com" target="_blank">mera-systems.com</a> (from
Canada)</div></div>
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<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma">What
we've heard is that it is much better than Asterisk which I guess is the
base of your system. </font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma"></font></span> </div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma">The
information from the FS home page.</font></span></div>
<div><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Tahoma"></font></span> </div>
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<h2>Performance </h2>
<ul>
<li>Tested under load for over 100 hours
</li><li>10,000,000+ calls
</li><li>At rates exceeding 50 CPS </li></ul>
<p>Performance will vary depending on application. You will need to test for
your particular situation. </p>
<div>Retrieved from "<a href="http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Specsheet" target="_blank">http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Specsheet</a>"</div></span></div></div></div>
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