Techistan Publication » tredway http://www.techistan.com Land of Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:20:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Reality of Leveraging Open Source: FrogNet http://www.techistan.com/2009/11/03/reality-of-leveraging-open-source-frognet/ http://www.techistan.com/2009/11/03/reality-of-leveraging-open-source-frognet/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:15:39 +0000 Marty Dickinson http://www.techistan.com/?p=727

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Previously I had compressed this the wrong way with a result of chipmunk voices.

Corrected and pretty cool! Frognet started in 1996 as a dial-up ISP company. The availability of open source telephony software is only one part of the business operation equation. Other real costs to manage an ISP business include price of equipment acquisition, human capital, training, data conversion and integration. More importantly, finding and hiring motivated CS talent must be factored into this equation.

In a frank conversation with Chip Swanson, CEO, and David Broeckelman-Post from Frognet, and IPiFony’s Matthew Hardeman, the three discuss the other costs for internet service providers. Digium’s Asterisk open source software helps new internet service providers bring soft switch applications including VOIP and other telephony services to the marketplace. DIDX was a media sponsor for ISPCon 2008. Brian Coburn and Anne Tredway recorded this discussion at the San Jose Conference Center in November.

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