Portaone Alternative
ASTPP is a more scalable, reliable, and robust Softswitch/PBX solution. It has both, community and enterprise versions, unlike PortaOne. In multiple ways, ASTPP can help you upscale your business growth.
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Free & Paid Usage Models |
- It has been offering an open source (community) version.
- It also offers an enterprise version.
- You can get started absolutely free with an open source telecom billing platform.
- Open source Billing platform also provides access to some features of the class 4 Softswitch software for free.
- Upgrade to the enterprise version once you start making a profit or when ready.
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- Only the enterprise version is available.
- You don’t have an option to get started without paying a complete license fee.
- Unlike ASTPP, you need a hefty investment before making any profits.
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Versatility of the Platform |
- It is a versatile, smart telephony platform.
- It has an array of VoIP solutions to offer such as multi tenant IP PBX, class 4 Softswitch software, wholesale VoIP billing solution, fax server, calling card solution, etc.
- A single platform can cater to small businesses to large scaled VoIP service providers, ITSPs, etc.
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- It is a pricey solution.
- It needs specific hardware to work optimally.
- It is developed with features that can meet the needs of big telecom service providers only.
- Not suitable for small or medium scale VoIP providers.
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Installation & Scalability Complexities |
- It is a highly scalable and flexible solution.
- All elements like core software, database, and GUI platform, can be installed in a single place.
- It makes management easier and cheaper.
- Once a business grows and the volume rises up, the business can create clusters with an easy scale up process.
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- PortaOne offers 2 major VoIP solutions.
- PortaSIP (Class 4/5 Softswitch and SBC).
- PortaBilling (BSS and OCS).
- To set up PortaBilling, multiple Linux servers are needed even if the call volume is low.
- It increases intricacy and cost.
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Ownership of Platform |
- It gets installed on your server or cloud space.
- The whole platform is developed by a single community, even if it has multiple VoIP solutions to offer.
- You get complete ownership and control over the software in the community version.
- In addition to that, you get the freedom of decision making for server redundancy.
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- It has some third party providers that provide the server partitions for PortaOne.
- If you use this platform, you will need to use services from these third party vendors, which include WorldCall.be and Telinta.
- This model creates roadblocks related to server redundancy and platform ownership.
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User Level System Access |
- ASTPP VoIP billing solution has role based user allocation.
- It also supports the reseller model.
- It has an insightful and simple to use GUI based interface.
- All this makes ASTPP quite easy to learn, use and manage for different users.
- It supports super admin, admin, customer, and reseller user types.
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- PortaOne has only an admin interface to offer with advanced features.
- This makes it challenging to manage role based users.
- It doesn’t provide operational flexibility and role based platform access.
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Flexibility of Platform Customization
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- The source code of the community version is available for customization.
- Enterprise and its all add-ons are flexible to be customized.
- Open source billing can be customized by freelance developers and companies.
- Using ASTPP billing platform experts or freelancers, you can develop add-ons, enhance UI, etc.
- This opens the options to get cheaper development services for this powerful platform.
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- It is a proprietary solution and its source code is not accessible to VoIP providers that are using it.
- For any enhancements and development, its users need to take help from PortaOne or its authorized partners.
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Technical Support Flexibility |
- It has a community forum with a proactive community.
- The community proactively gives resolutions to any technical or business queries that ASTPP open source billing users face.
- There are also many freelancers and companies that offer paid technical support for an open source VoIP billing version.
- Paid technical support from ASTPP experts is available for enterprise users.
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- Its users are dependent on the authorized PortaOne partners for any kind of technical support.
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