"As the leading supplier of business-grade open source communications products, Pingtel is uniquely positioned to deliver the benefits of open source-based solutions to the market."

This statement comes from William J. Rich, President and CEO of Pingtel Corp. as Pingtel announced its admission into Europe by joining forces with European distributors to bring SIP solutions to European VoIP markets.

"Since Pingtel introduced enterprise class open source SIP-based technologies to market, significant interest has been generated amongst customers, resellers, partners and developers in Europe, said Rich.

Backed with the support of many channel sponsors including Planet21 (Ireland), Flow-line (U.K.), MTD Anywhere Limited (U.K.), Tadicom (Belgium) and New Bridges (Netherlands), Pingtel and sponsors are offering low-cost, high-value SIP-based solutions tailored to meet customers' specific needs, including the ability to select a wide variety of SIP desktop phones, analog telephone adapters, gateways and other SIP-based enterprise communications products from Pingtel's Ecosystem partners.

A fast adoption of the industrys 100 percent native SIP enterprise communications platform, SIPxchange is expected by delivering enterprise-grade solutions based on the SIPfoundry open source sipX projects. This low-cost, high-value approach provides European customers and VARs a better way buy, deploy and use enterprise communications by combining the innovation and economics of open source SIP.

Pingtel delivers enterprise-class SIP PBX, SIP call manager and softphone applications based on open source software from SIPfoundry, Inc., similar to the Red Hat model for delivery of professional-grade Linux.

For more information, visit Pingtel on the Web at www.pingtel.com 

Michelle Pasquerello is Online Channels Editor for TMCnet.