[SR-Users] [OT] the role of SBCs

[Alex Balashov]

Commercial SBCs are quite featureful, but their feature set is extremely 
static, and often depends on vendor consulting and expertise to be 
approachable.

Nobody claimed the open-source solutions are simple to support or don't 
require expertise.  They're not free, either, as everyone well knows.

In my view, the real value of something like Kamailio - where it's not 
merely a money-saving measure but can achieve truly spectacular 
multiplier effects in technological leverage - is in its integration 
paths (MI and sercmd/binrpc), HTTP client/server, database connectors, 
integrated servers, etc.  The ability to develop new kinds of 
applications and services that rely on making disparate components talk 
to and interoperate with each other in novel ways, as well as to make 
better, more economical use of existing technology through those same 
kinds of facilities, is where the real power truly lies.  Some 
commercial products powered by proprietary stacks have APIs too, but 
they're light years behind the open-source world in this regard; they 
are far too bureaucratic and inflexible.

This is where our customers typically see massive payback of using 
something like Kamailio, aside from the any savings on licensing costs 
(both of the core network element and potential dependencies).

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Alex Balashov - Principal
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