SIPfoundry integrates with Skype for SIP

Open source telephony community SIPfoundry has announced its sipXecs product is interoperable with Skype for SIP, and the companies are testing the product in a beta program. The Skype for SIP program promises to lower the cost of telephony because businesses can direct outbound calls through the sipXecs client using Skype credits.

Skype said integrating with an open-source IP PBX and supporting the SIP protocol show the company's commitment to providing cost savings to its customers.

"Achieving interoperability with Skype for SIP means it is now easy for companies that deploy the sipXecs IP PBX solution to route their outbound calls via Skype," Martin J. Steinmann, member of the board of directors at SIPfoundry, said in a statement. "The ability for the many companies around the globe that are already using a sipXecs IP PBX system to now get the many benefits which Skype for SIP delivers further enhances the ease-of-use and low total cost of ownership of our open source solution."

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