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Open Source Communications Options & Opportunities

Open Source Communications Options & Opportunities. Voice-over-IP Special Interest Group Thursday, May 17, 2007. ACUTA Survey of VoIP Deployment March 07. Reflects the early state of VoIP deployments in the ACUTA universe

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Open Source Communications Options & Opportunities

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  1. Open Source Communications Options & Opportunities Voice-over-IP Special Interest Group Thursday, May 17, 2007

  2. ACUTA Survey of VoIP Deployment March 07 • Reflects the early state of VoIP deployments in the ACUTA universe • Likely to shift as ACUTA members begin considering large-scale VoIP deployments • 76% of survey respondents feel more optimistic than 3 years ago 54% have not thought about it

  3. Reference Architecture Is Perfectly Aligned with Open Source • Reference Architecture enables a decomposed model … implement best of breed components in vendor neutral manner… • Breaking … into components … implement features … in gradual ways that track demand • Each campus must be capable of bidirectional SIP … as the primary communication protocol

  4. The Open Source Trend • Starting to gain market currency • .edu attracted by the same benefits associated with other open source software • Disaggregation and flexibility that favors customers • Open, flexible framework based on SIP • Lower prices; ongoing downward pressure on prices • Faster development cycles & more innovation at every level • Can open source become enterprise class and really change the market?

  5. Open Source Myths & Reality The real issues are (software) maturity and availability of commercial version

  6. Major Open Source Communications Projects Other projects include SER and Free Switch

  7. Costs About 50% Less Than TDM or IP PBXs Major cost component is IP phones. Now subject to competition and Moore’s Law

  8. Is It Ready for ? Just what you would expect, only better and cheaper

  9. Are Colleges and Universities Using Open Source? 1,500 stations. Full deployment 5,000+ 2,000 stations. Full deployment 3,000 500 stations. Full deployment 2,500 Absolutely!

  10. Learn More • www.pingtel.com • www.sipfoundry.org • William Rich, President & CEO Pingtel Corp. brich@pingtel.com

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