VegaStream, supplier of gateway CPE for traditional and next generation Internet telephony service providers today announced its corporate sponsorship of the open source SIP-based development project, SIPfoundry. The sponsorship will assist in the development of enterprise of carrier communications products and technologies.

SIPfoundry, a non-profit organization, promotes SIP-related open source projects built on the premise that allowing the paramount technology win in an open and competitive market is best for the market eco-system. Through their sponsorship, VegaStream will be able to leverage standards-based IP communications applications for market differentiation in a highly competitive environment.

"Supporting SIPfoundry presents an unprecedented opportunity for us to participate at the forefront of the next wave of development for the technology that will reshape the enterprise and service provider communications market," said Tim Burne, CEO of VegaStream. "As the leading provider of dedicated, standards-based VoIP gateways. VegaStream looks forward to contributing to the development of open source SIP technology as a means to deliver PC-like economics to the VoIP market."

"SIPfoundry provides solutions that address real problems faced by enterprise customers and telecommunications carriers that want to deploy standards-based communications products," said Dr. Martin J Steinmann, member of the SIPfoundry board of directors and venture partner with Vesbridge Partners. "VegaStream is a welcome partner to the debate and development programs sponsored by SIPfoundry and we look forward to their continued contributions as the market moves inexplicitly toward open sources based applications and technologies." 

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