You people continue the believe that I am asking for help with the simple configuration of this PBX, and that’s not at all what the NDA is about.
The NDA is so that we can discuss these things in depth, in detail, without any concerns that you might accidentally give out information like future business plans, un-patented ideas and such. SkykingOH, no offense, but all of your hints are all things that I’ve been taught in college, your business model, as you call it, may be complete but all you give are hints. And you can’t really go into detail about it because… drum roll please… you aren’t protected. And your business model and plans ARE NOT public domain, freely available on the internet, you spent years developing and putting them into action. Now if I make a suggestion that you have not thought of yet, you are already knee deep in this market and can just “add” it to your plans and commence putting it into action, all while I’m trying to play catch-up and get started.
I already know I’m probably going to have most of my residential and small business customer on DSL connections, so that they get guaranteed, dedicated access. You aren’t telling me anything new when you say that (a)dsl connections go to a DSLAM. I know I’ll have to build or buy a server with hardware cards for G729A/B conversion, since leasing the (patented) codecs and doing it in software is too slow and expensive. I have no intention of running anything except Asterisk, not AsteriskNOW because GUI/web interfaces are for end users, and don’t belong on a server unless it’s a dedicated web server, sorry, un-needed running services are a security risk, and a possible (haywire)process to lock up the system.
So skykingOH and the rest, here’s a hint for you all, I’m not trying to design, improve or do anything else to this software, that’s what you folks do, and say that you do it well. I want to lay the wires, build the networks, connect them with VPN’s until I can put the actual wire(fiber) in the ground.
What makes AT&T THE phone company, is that they own the wires, everyone has to pay them to use the wires. If they don’t let you use their wires…
What happens to your business model when AT&T decides that they don’t want anyone else selling phone service on THEIR NETWORK, or they decide rather that they’ll take your money, but all your traffic goes through the “special loop” and your traffic has intermittent echos, glitches, aquarium sounds while their customers can “hear a pin drop”.
Your business model mentions nothing of how your going to take business away from the cell phone companies, mine does. Do you have dependable, inexpensive, suppliers, willing to build your designs or make changes to an existing design, and do it without requiring that you buy 10,000 at a time? I do.
Do you have several specific plans based on customer profile, with detailed plans on tapping that market segment? I do.
You build and sell PBX systems and require that your customers have a specific level of connection. Have you talked to AT&T to see about consolidating ALL of your POP’s, aggregating the bandwidth under a single account to get a better rate for your customers, and to have guaranteed Service Level Agreements(SLA’s) with AT&T so that you have legal recourse if the service is no good?
Have you made arrangements with AT&T or some other major player to ensure that if your server goes down, your customers don’t see more than maybe a dropped phone call?
Now, could you answer all these questions in detail, without a Non-Disclosure Agreement to protect your interests? And would you do it on a public forum?
Please don’t continue to think that I need help with this software, I don’t. And please stop ridiculing my posts, I don’t need you to “manage my network” for me, I design and install networks, I’m A+ certified Network+ certified and several other certifications that I’ve let drop because I haven’t been using them since I’ve been doing other things (laying tile, fixing cars, remodeling houses) just like I let my DSL(DL license) expire because I’m not operating heavy equipment right now.
Manage my network, like I would let you.
I’m willing to (possibly) strip off the VOIP traffic and let you handle that, but really, I can do that with any provider on the market. Diamondcard will be happy to not only take my traffic, but let me put up a custom web interface so that my customers don’t even know that they’ve been handed off, and it doesn’t cost me “significant financial consideration (read $$$$)”.
I can have my programmer, and I do have a real programmer (that’s my business partners forte), college trained in FORTRAN, COBAL, C, C++, etc, and worked for years (re)programming mainframes at Dillards corporate, write the code which gets burned to the device by the manufacturer, And my customers have their own “BlackBox” with my company name all over it. I have contacts overseas who can set-up a call center for cheap live operators. Are you starting to understand the difference between a business plan and some hints dropped on the public forum.
If you can drop the attitude, and are willing to sign the NDA, I’ll still consider working with you. Otherwise we can end this thread, and good luck to all of you in your endeavours.
Peace.
