Westcon Group is now offering Digium’s complete line of Asterisk (News - Alert)-based telephony solutions to its global community of reseller customers. The collaboration between the two companies will enable Westcon resellers to deliver open source-based, non-proprietary VoIP solutions to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) more economically.

 

The companies point out that entire line of Digium’s solutions is now available through Westcon’s CollaborationPoint Open Source program. This includes the Switchvox (News - Alert) IP PBX, Asterisk Appliance, Asterisk Business Edition software and appliances, and Digium’s (News - Alert) complete line of analog, digital and voice processing telephony cards for Asterisk servers and appliances.

 

Leveraging the Westcon’s CollaborationPoint Open Source program, resellers can easily access sales support, pre-sales engineering and post-sales support, advanced selling and configuration tools, authoritative market analysis and up-to-date product information. All Digium products are backed by its Exceptional Satisfaction Program (ESP) money-back guarantee.

 

Dan Pirro, group commercial sales manager of Westcon Group said in a statement that Digium is the undisputed leader of open source innovation and is breaking new ground in providing SMBs with the means to integrate reliable and affordable IP communications platforms that meet the needs of evolving business.

 

He added that this partnership delivers greater competitive advantage to Westcon resellers as they look to provide businesses with customized and affordable, open source-based communications options where none previously existed.

 

According to Steve Harvey, Digium’s vice president of worldwide sales, by partnering with Westcon, they will be able to bring more affordable Asterisk-based VoIP solutions to the mass market and expand mainstream channel coverage.

 

Harvey indicated that the Digium line of telephony products, along with Westcon’s Asterisk-friendly ecosystem, will help Westcon resellers more confidently address new market opportunities by offering complete, open source-based communications solutions that compete with proprietary solutions on features, performance and price.

 

Westcon Group is a specialty distributor in networking, security, mobility and convergence for leading technology vendors, including Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and Polycom (News - Alert).

 

Digium created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. The company was recently in news when it partnered with Metaphor Solutions (News - Alert), a provider of speech IVR solutions, to develop an On-Demand Plug & Play IVR (Interactive Voice Response) application suite for the Asterisk market.