I lead up the sustaining engineering for VoIP at a major long distance carrier, and we run almost a billion minutes a month of VoIP. We are the largest VoIP carrier in the world, and are pushing the telephony envelope in every direction.
Sorry, nowhere in the VoIP cloud is a singular non-unix box.
UNIX was born to be a class V phone switch, and now as the backbone for SS7 gatekeeping, Billing Collection, Network Management, Policy Serving (route resolution), and the core OS of Trunking Media Gateways, it has been reborn tenfold. Windows NT cannot penetrate this market. Besides I shudder at the thought of managing several hundred NT servers (not that they could replace my cloud of Sun 4500s, 6500s, Netra 1400s, and many Netra T1's).
In fact I would humbly guess that we have the largest singular UNIX platform in the world - this entire system functioning as a IXC LD Carrier.
Heck, let's dig a little further (out of VoIP and into our legacy equipment) -
STP - Unix based backbone of ss7 network worldwide
SCP - Unix database for Local Number Portability & toll free, credit card calling, etc.
Centest - Runs between the DCS (whoops another unix based, digital cross connect system) and the media gateways as well as the Alcatel TDM (DEX also Unix based)...
Shucks , this list could go on forever, and it is all unix.
We even use Unix from the desktop, from which to execute/develop our SNMP (with Perl) based tools. I admit I have a windows box somewhere... but I never use it. I get confused with that funky editor program which always confuses my vi shortcuts for content... yuck.
The statement about Windows dominating telephony made me laugh, and prompted my first (and likely only) response to slashdot...
Get a grip... Solaris dominates the telco, and always will. Forever. Sorry Bill, I will never consent to your fragile equipment providing carrier class service.
Sorry Linus, you have a fun economical alternative, but honestly, the fault tolerant high-uptime, carrier grade MTBF equipment does not exist to support your OS, and Solaris is so ubiquitous that in the Telecommunications Industry Unix means Solaris.
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I lead up the sustaining engineering for VoIP at a major long distance carrier, and we run almost a billion minutes a month of VoIP. We are the largest VoIP carrier in the world, and are pushing the telephony envelope in every direction. Sorry, nowhere in the VoIP cloud is a singular non-unix box. UNIX was born to be a class V phone switch, and now as the backbone for SS7 gatekeeping, Billing Collection, Network Management, Policy Serving (route resolution), and the core OS of Trunking Media Gateways, it has been reborn tenfold. Windows NT cannot penetrate this market. Besides I shudder at the thought of managing several hundred NT servers (not that they could replace my cloud of Sun 4500s, 6500s, Netra 1400s, and many Netra T1's). In fact I would humbly guess that we have the largest singular UNIX platform in the world - this entire system functioning as a IXC LD Carrier. Heck, let's dig a little further (out of VoIP and into our legacy equipment) - STP - Unix based backbone of ss7 network worldwide SCP - Unix database for Local Number Portability & toll free, credit card calling, etc. Centest - Runs between the DCS (whoops another unix based, digital cross connect system) and the media gateways as well as the Alcatel TDM (DEX also Unix based)... Shucks , this list could go on forever, and it is all unix. We even use Unix from the desktop, from which to execute/develop our SNMP (with Perl) based tools. I admit I have a windows box somewhere... but I never use it. I get confused with that funky editor program which always confuses my vi shortcuts for content... yuck. The statement about Windows dominating telephony made me laugh, and prompted my first (and likely only) response to slashdot... Get a grip... Solaris dominates the telco, and always will. Forever. Sorry Bill, I will never consent to your fragile equipment providing carrier class service. Sorry Linus, you have a fun economical alternative, but honestly, the fault tolerant high-uptime, carrier grade MTBF equipment does not exist to support your OS, and Solaris is so ubiquitous that in the Telecommunications Industry Unix means Solaris.