On Jan 10, 2012 1:32 PM, "Michael Collins" <msc@freeswitch.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:28 PM, <cmrienzo@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> That university has switched back to Cisco.
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> 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. 
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> 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). 
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> 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.
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> -MC 
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