Digium® and Integrics Partner to Offer Open Source-Based Telephony Solution to Carriers
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., and Londonderry, UK—May 12, 2008 — Digium®, Inc.,
the Asterisk® 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™, Asterisk Business Edition™ and AsteriskNOW™.
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®, Inc., the Asterisk® 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 offers Asterisk
software free to the open source community and offers 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.
