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Digium(R) and Integrics Partner to Offer Open Source-Based Telephony Solution to Carriers
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. & LONDONDERRY, UK --(Business Wire)-- Digium(R), Inc., the Asterisk(R) Company, and Integrics Ltd., a software engineering company providing telecommunications software to customers worldwide, today announced that they have partnered around sales and marketing of Integrics' Enswitch, a carrier-grade switch based on the Asterisk telephony platform, to carriers worldwide. The agreement provides a route for closer technical, sales and marketing collaboration between the companies and expands Digium's involvement in the carrier market.
Digium is the creator and driving force behind Asterisk, the open source telephony software deployed by more than 4 million servers worldwide to manage voice over IP (VoIP) calls for businesses and individuals. More resellers, telecom professionals and software developers choose Digium's products than those of any other open source telephony company because only Digium delivers the technical superiority, security and flexibility associated with Asterisk. Asterisk powers Digium's family of software and hardware appliances, including Switchvox(TM), Asterisk Business Edition(TM) and AsteriskNOW(TM).
Integrics sells Enswitch to telecommunications companies, Internet telephony service providers (ITSPs), VoIP providers and others to allow them to create offerings such as full-featured, telephone management and billing solutions, calling card integration, toll free and number translation services, voicemail, call queuing, automatic call distributor, fax to email and multi-level interactive voice response.
Enswitch is based on Digium's Asterisk Business Edition or open source Asterisk, based on each customer's preference, as well as other open source software such as OpenSER, MySQL and Linux. Enswitch runs on a single machine or on an Asterisk/OpenSER cluster and supports high availability and failover, allowing for failure of any single machine with only a few seconds of interruption to service. The clustered architecture, which can be geographically distributed, also allows additional machines to be added as the customer's network grows.
"Enswitch is the most integrated system available today for hosted commercial telephony services," said Alistair Cunningham, Managing Director at Integrics. "There are many other products available that provide PBX features, pre-paid billing, post-paid billing, invoicing and so on, but only Enswitch provides all of these in a single integrated product. Collaboration with Digium will help us better capitalize on sales and marketing opportunities and enhance our own product development over time."
"The combination of Asterisk and Enswitch provides a cost-effective alternative to traditional methods for providing hosted PBX and other commercial telephony services," said Steve Harvey, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Digium. "Asterisk's open source architecture also lends itself to a high level of customization to meet the needs of each customer. We believe that a closer relationship with Integrics will help push Asterisk further into the service provider market by giving those companies a very attractive alternative to closed-source products."
About Integrics
Integrics is the author of Enswitch, a powerful and scalable integrated solution for commercial telephony services. Founded in 2004, Integrics serves carriers throughout Europe and North America. With over 40 installations and systems over 100,000 users and well into thousands of concurrent calls, Enswitch is proven in the field. For more details, visit http://integrics.com/.
About Digium
Digium(R), Inc., the Asterisk(R) Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium makes Asterisk software available to the open source community and delivers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company's product line includes a wide range of hardware to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey solutions or to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems. More information is available at www.digium.com.
The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, Asterisk Business Edition, AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Appliance, Genuine Asterisk, Switchvox and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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