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 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> *To:* 'Dmitry Stafeev' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> *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"; >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freeswitch-users mailing list >> Freeswitch-users@lists.freeswitch.org >> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users >> UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users >> http://www.freeswitch.org >> >> >
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