Having worked with Switchvox for several years, I can honestly say that it is one of the only systems that I have worked with that allows you to do a backup from the Web interface, install a new box, and re-install the backup and have EVERYTHING work without a problem. It's quick, painless and easy enough that I can write a procedure that a secretary can follow in an emergency.
Most likely, this is the process that they are referencing in the press release. That once a customer grows to a point where they need to migrate from a virtualized solution to a hardware solution, they simply transfer the configuration from the Virtual PBX over to a physical box. In fact, our standard DR protocol on Switchvox is to have a hot-spare sitting on-site at the client, and in the event of a hardware failure on the first box, we can easily re-load the last current backup onto the second box, reboot it and the customer is back up in minutes, not hours or days. We also add a hot-swap drive bay to the box so that in the event there is a hardware failure that is non-drive related (MB or Memory) the client can simply swap the hard drives and boot on the secondary system. I'd love to see an active/active configuration w/ automated configuration and data synchronization between the two PBX systems, so that it could be manually failed over in a matter of minutes, but this increases the complexity rather dramatically. It would probably have to involve some sort of combination of Postgresql replication as well as some rsync or block copy magic between the systems. Only thing that I dislike about Switchvox is the limited subset of hardware that it is "certified" to run on, although I've been assured that will be changing in the near future as they get more resources from Digium to work with. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Volt Johntra Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 3:42 AM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] "Whats New at Digium the Asterisk Company" It is certainly old technology but hey 'if you have nothing better, make it up' Volt Alexander Graham Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin, perhaps you might explain this. I understood this was old technology? "the only virtualized IP PBX that can seamlessly transfer small business customers to a dedicated on-site appliance" AGB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" <asterisk-biz@lists.digium.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 8:18 PM Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] "Whats New at Digium the Asterisk Company" > shadowym wrote: >> Didn't Mark Spencer recently criticize Fonality's Hosted business model? > > Digium (and Switchvox) have no intent to offer hosted service (PBX or > otherwise). What was announced is that Switchvox is going to make > available, as a product, a hosted version of Switchvox that can be > deployed by other companies to offer service to their customers. This is > similar to the deployment model for Broadsoft, Sylantro and a number of > other companies that make 'hosted PBX' products available to service > providers, but not to end users. > > -- > Kevin P. Fleming _____ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51443/*http:/www.yahoo.com/r/hs> your homepage. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by <http://www.n2net.net/professional-virusspam.asp> N2Net Mailshield, and is believed to be clean.
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