At Astricon last week, IBM and Digium announced an Asterisk-based phone system available on IBM's Smart Cube platform. Smart Cube is IBM's downloadable business platform aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. The deal with Digium will offer Smart Cube users an IP PBX-based Asterisk business phone and other unified communications services that can be downloaded and installed in a half hour.
The Digium add-on has been customized to integrate directly with the Smart Cube platform allowing users to manage the phone system directly from the Smart Cube interface. Customers will rely on IBM directly for product support. According to Computer World, the Digium software will be sold in two sizes: $2,000 for 20 concurrent calls and $4,000 for 40 concurrent calls.
For more:
- read Computer World's story here [1]
- read Voxilla's piece here [2]
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Digium targets Latin America, South Africa with sales partnership [3]
[3]Digium adds UC to Switchvox IP PBX
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[5]Digium: Asterisk downloads up 50% in 2008
[6]Skype for Asterisk now available [7] [5]
Links:
[1] http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=5F5AAF73-1A64-6A71-CEA3F94FDC976CB5
[2] http://voxilla.com/2009/10/15/asterisk-makes-enterprise-inroads-with-big-blue-2365
[3] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/digium-announces-global-sales-partner/2009-05-27
[4] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/embargoed-until-9-am-et-monday-feb-2-digium-adds-uc-switchvox-ip-pbx/2009-02-01
[5] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/ibm-enhances-smb-uc-offering/2009-07-16
[6] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/digium-asterisk-downloads-50-2008/2008-12-17
[7] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/skype-asterisk-now-available/2009-09-01