Bandwidth.com announced a new project it's calling the Developer Sandbox Program, which the company said will solicit developers to create new IP communications, FMC, and open source telephony products through the FreePBX open source software program it sponsors [1]. The company, which is a nationwide CLEC that owns and operates an IP voice network, said the initial internal products would focus on hot trends such as HD voice, next-gen VoIP codes, one-number access for FMC, SIP-based SMS, and other new telephony applications.
Todd Barr, VP of marketing for Bandwidth.com, said the Sandbox program will be a great foundation for new open source telephony applications.
"We have a number of goals with the initial roll out (of the Developers' Sandbox)," Barr said. "We want to try to find outside help to optimize uses cases for the platform, and we hope network problems might get solved more quickly due to the developer community."
Bandwidth.com said the Sandbox program would "catalyze the next generation of telephony applications" by letting developers leverage the open source code of FreePBX, providing open access to Bandwidth.com's extensive VoIP network, and arranging partnerships with other industry players such as CounterPath and Ditech Networks' toktok service.
For more:
- see the press release here [2]
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Asterisk friend FreePBX joins with Bandwidth.com [1]
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Links:
[1] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/asterisk-friend-freepbx-joins-bandwidth-com/2008-11-17
[2] http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090805005089&newsLang=en
[3] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/bandwidth-com-partners-telchemy/2008-09-22