[asterisk-biz] Digium and Integrics Partner to Offer Open Source-Based Telephony Solution to Carriers

[Alistair Cunningham]

Monday May 12, 8:00 am ET

Collaboration around Asterisk(R)-based soft switch will drive Integrics'
product development for telecommunications, service provider customers

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. & LONDONDERRY, UK
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.

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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 hosted PBX, 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 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.

Contact:

Integrics
Alistair Cunningham, +44 20 799 39 799
acunningham at integrics.com

or

Digium
Julie Webb, 256-428-6203
jwebb at digium.com

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Alistair Cunningham
+1 888 468 3111
+44 20 799 39 799
sip:acunningham at integrics.com
http://integrics.com/