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Type in a Title Agenda Here Type in a sub-title agenda here Primer: State of the Art  in Open Source David Willis Open Source and Open Standards Emerging Drivers for Adoption Past Focus was on infrastructure Proprietary technologies Performance demanded custom hardware Little integration across technologies Slower product cycles and competition Enterprises unwilling to accept any risk in networking Today Infrastructure is in place Interoperable standards Moores Law enables high performance via software Shift to software-based applications/services Increase competition among vendors Vibrant open-source community embraced by enterprises looking for a better solution OSS Core Value Propositions Wide Range of OSS Options Our Panel Solegy - Eric Hernaez, CEO and Founder a la Mobile, Inc. - David Rivas, CTO Fonality – Kerry Garrison, Sr. Product Mgr OSS PBX: Asterisk Asterisk - Offers full set of PBX functionality: It has been enhanced with additional open source functionality,including voicemail, audio-conferencing, contact center,Auto Attendant, IVR, and others. Installed base: 1.5 million versions of Asterisk downloaded and installed: Estimated 250,000 sites in production (+/- 10%) (including VARs). Average site size is 25 extensions/users. Some are small, others are large 3,000+. Differentiator: the best known OSS telephony solution Leading sources for SMB solutions: Large enterprises have licensed directly with Asterisk. SwitchVox - turnkey CPE SMB solution (up to 200 users). A plug and play. Good administration GUI. Many references. $2,495 – for 24 simultaneous calls; an upgrade to 60. No handsets included. Support $499/yr SMB (updates, patches, call and email support). Fonality - where the GUI and Admin is thin client and can be hosted and a CPE PBX is installed. For SMB (up to 200 users). Many references. $995. Support ~$60/year per user. There are many other dealers and integrators available. OSS Instant Messaging (IM) and Presence: Jabber Instant Mes