Justifying Open Source Toolkit Presentation Slides
Justifying Open Source Toolkit Presentation Slides
Pete Engler
Channel and Product Marketing Manager, Digium
Introduction
Truths:
• Cost-effective
• Self-developed solutions can cut the proprietary solution cost
• Flexible
• Developers are able to build a custom solution
Myths and Truths About Open Source
Truths:
• Not all contributions to an open source project are accepted
• Good open source projects will scrutinize contributions for relevance, code
structure and quality before incorporating
Asterisk Solutions
HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
• Leading Biotechnology Institute Depends on Power of Open Source
Communications From Digium
• Required a robust, redundant phone system that could support multiple
tenants at HudsonAlpha
• Installed an Asterisk phone system through an integrator
• Created call managers to handle phone registrations and internal call
routing
• Built two active call gateways
utilizing Asterisk for external
call routing
• Built two active/passive
MySQL database/shared file
servers to complete the
system
City of Schoten
• A city of 33,000 inhabitants located in the heart of Belgium
• Migrated from 15 disparate telephone systems to an Asterisk open-
source PBX solution
• Reduced operating and maintenance costs and gain greater
functionality to meet their telephony needs
• Moving to Digium's Asterisk,
the organization expects to
save nearly $50,000 annually
• Reaping the rewards of a
robust IP-based telephony
solution.
Enswitch Softswitch
Advantages of Asterisk
- Cost Effective
- Feature-rich
- Scalability
- Flexibility/Integration
- Integration/Customization
- Huge community of developers
- Standards-based
Deciding if Open Source is a Fit For Your Business