Digium Pushes into the Carrier Space

Digium [1] has teamed up with U.K.-based Integrics for sales and marketing efforts to deliver a carrier-grade switch solution to carriers. The two will promote and sell the Asterisk-based Integric's Enswtich, activities that will expand Digium's involvement in the carrier market.

Integrics sells Enswitch to telecommunications companies, ITSPs, and VoIP providers and claims more than 40 installations with systems serving over 100,000 users. The Enswitch solution is cluster-based and built around open hardware and software. Larger clusters include full redundancy and multiple Asterisk servers running in parallel to increase call capacity. Other servers can be dropped in to handle additional functions as needed, such as pre- and post-paid services, reseller segmentation, and integrated invoicing.

The partnership is a building block to fill in Digium's product line at the higher-end of the IP PBX/softswitch food chain and could be a trial marriage to a potential acquisition of Integrics down the road. Digium executives have long recognized a strategic need for a scalable, high-availability carrier-class solution to larger enterprises and carriers. Integrics could deliver the necessary technical resources to do so, as well as a ready-developed footprint into the carrier market. And Digium's purchase of Switchvox demonstrates the company isn't shy about acquisitions when it makes sense.

For More:
- Digium Integrics Carrier Partner Release [2]

Related Articles:
Digium Takes Switchvox [3]
Asterisk--Threatening or Boring? [4]