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January 26, 2010
Sangoma Extends Commitment to Open Source Telephony
By Jyothi Mahalingham, TMCnet Contributor
Sangoma Technologies (News - Alert) Corporation, a provider of hardware and software products that enable server-based voice and data communication applications, recently announced its commitment to the FreeSWITCH open source project.
According to officials with Sangoma, the company is extending its support to FreeSWITCH by sponsoring their open source conference and extending monetary as well as technical support to encourage the growth of the FreeSWITCH community.
Sangoma officials said they are planning to be a Diamond sponsor of the proposed 10th annual ClueCon Conference to be held at Chicago, Ill. The three day open source telephony user and developer conference is expected to have active participation and presentations from a range of telephony platforms such as FreeSWITCH, Asterisk (News - Alert), Callweaver, OpenSIPKamailio, Bayonne and Yate.
'Sangoma's contribution has been invaluable since the inception of the movement, both from a financial perspective as well as from a technology partnership level,' said Anthony Minessale, lead developer of the FreeSWITCH project.
'We are excited about Sangoma's continued involvement and active support for the project,' Minessale said.
Sangoma also has agreed to sponsor the FreeSWITCH community calls and weekly calls during the presentation of issues of interest from leading developers to the open source telephone community.
In addition, the company has also agreed to extend technical support to the open source developers whenever they make presentations on topics of their expertise.
'Since being launched 2006, FreeSWITCH has been growing in popularity, sophistication and stability as a fully-featured, carrier-grade softswitch and telephony platform,' said Serge Forest (News - Alert), vice president of Marketing at Sangoma.
'Over the last year, we have seen some of the most innovative and powerful applications being driven by the FreeSWITCH engine,” Forest said.
Sangoma Technologies Corporation was founded in 1984 and has certifications and distribution partnerships all over the world.
According to officials with Sangoma, the company is extending its support to FreeSWITCH by sponsoring their open source conference and extending monetary as well as technical support to encourage the growth of the FreeSWITCH community.
Sangoma officials said they are planning to be a Diamond sponsor of the proposed 10th annual ClueCon Conference to be held at Chicago, Ill. The three day open source telephony user and developer conference is expected to have active participation and presentations from a range of telephony platforms such as FreeSWITCH, Asterisk (News - Alert), Callweaver, OpenSIPKamailio, Bayonne and Yate.
'Sangoma's contribution has been invaluable since the inception of the movement, both from a financial perspective as well as from a technology partnership level,' said Anthony Minessale, lead developer of the FreeSWITCH project.
'We are excited about Sangoma's continued involvement and active support for the project,' Minessale said.
Sangoma also has agreed to sponsor the FreeSWITCH community calls and weekly calls during the presentation of issues of interest from leading developers to the open source telephone community.
In addition, the company has also agreed to extend technical support to the open source developers whenever they make presentations on topics of their expertise.
'Since being launched 2006, FreeSWITCH has been growing in popularity, sophistication and stability as a fully-featured, carrier-grade softswitch and telephony platform,' said Serge Forest (News - Alert), vice president of Marketing at Sangoma.
'Over the last year, we have seen some of the most innovative and powerful applications being driven by the FreeSWITCH engine,” Forest said.
Sangoma Technologies Corporation was founded in 1984 and has certifications and distribution partnerships all over the world.
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Jyothi Mahalingham is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jyothi's articles, please visit his columnist page.
Edited by Stefania Viscusi
