On Jan 10, 2012 1:32 PM, "Michael Collins" <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:28 PM, <cmrienzo@gmail.com> wrote:
That university has switched back to Cisco.
Yeah, they used Asterisk before FreeSWITCH was available and mature. The
problem they ran into with Asterisk at SHSU was they needed people full time to baby sit their * servers and make ridiculous patches all day. ^^^^ that is exactly the issue here either : when somebody asks a question on the board, the answer is always: have you upgraded to header version? Or do not use it. Enterprise can't afford patch& upgrade daily. You guys need to take a strategy to release and support. For instance, two release: stable release will has a life span 3 years and be supported. Test release with latest features. They ended up spending a lot of money on people. With Cisco, they get to spend all that money on equipment, licensing, etc.
I don't know of any large campuses using FreeSWITCH. Depending on the
needs of the campus the CudaTel might work. Bare FreeSWITCH servers w/ OpenSIPS would also be an interesting solution but you'll still need to have someone be a "vendor" for support, etc. FSS will do support contracts on the FreeSWITCH stuff but you still need someone for the OpenSIPS side. I know Bogdan (from OpenSIPS) does that, as does Flavio Goncalves (OpenSIPS trainer, author).
It sounds to me like you could save a bundle with OSS but it will take a
coordinated effort and you must definitely get experts to spec out the install before hand.
-MC
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