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.”

Source: Business Wire