Digium, the Asterisk (News - Alert) Company, has revealed that its IP phones now support auto provisioning with Integrics Enswitch, a VoIP switch designed for commercial carrier-grade telephony services built upon the Asterisk platform.

Integrics Enswitch is used by carriers around the world for commercial telephony services such as full-featured, multi-tenant hosted PBX (News - Alert), Internet telephone service provider (ITSP) services, toll free and number translation services, calling cards and call shops.

The integration and testing of Integrics Enswitch with Digium (News - Alert) ensures that Digium's D70, D50 and D40 phones work seamlessly with Enswitch. Thanks to this seamless integration, the company is now able to roll out thousands of handsets to customers.

Under the partnership, system owners, resellers and end-users can automatically provision the Digium IP phones from within the Enswitch Web interface or via the SOAP API, automatically downloading the proper configuration and contacts via HTTP. Each Enswitch system owner can also create and edit custom provisioning templates and choose which template applies to each phone.

"Enswitch is designed to offer a wide range of commercial telephony services in a single, integrated phone system," said Alistair Cunningham, founder and general manager, Integrics, in a statement.

"We were able to integrate Enswitch with the Digium phones without any difficulty and the primary advantage is the ability to quickly and easily roll out thousands of phones,” Cunningham added. “It could be time consuming if you had to configure each phone manually."

Asterisk is one of the most widely adopted open source communications software. Digium phones are engineered to fully leverage the power of Asterisk. Business customers using Digium IP phones benefit from the best possible performance, unprecedented integration and a feature-rich, customizable phone system.

"The ability to develop real custom applications on the Digium phones in JavaScript allows service providers to easily integrate their back-end web and switch services with an end user's phone," David Hardy, director of Business Development for Digium concluded. "This provides service differentiation for customers like Integrics, while increasing functionality and productivity."