Asterisk PBX Mobile Video Client Launched by Xriz

Users of Asterisk PBX (News - Alert) will be happy to hear their PBX can go mobile. Mobile unified communications provider Damaka launched Xriz, a mobile client that extends video and audio capabilities of Asterisk’s PBX to Android (News - Alert) and iOS devices.

With no need for additional hardware or software, Xriz allows mobile professionals to participate in video conferences from anywhere, connecting with Asterisk (News - Alert) users via their smartphones and tablets for video communication.

Xriz is a SIP-based solution that can be downloaded to mobile devices, including Android devices and iPhone (News - Alert) and iPad.

Sangoma, a company highly involved with the Asterisk open source space, recently announced their outlook on the first quarter of 2012, of which they said they expect great things.

According to the report, the company highlighted a 20 percent increase in sales from the same time period the year before.

"This is a very positive sign," said Bill Wignall, President and CEO of Sangoma, in a statement. "Delivering year over year growth of 20 percent is really excellent for our industry, especially during these extremely uncertain economic times. We believe that our new focus on growth, new corporate strategy, new product portfolio and new management team is beginning to bear fruit. The reaction of our customers, as well as our OEM and distribution partners around the world, to these changes is quite promising."

"We hope to see our underlying revenue grow throughout the year, from our first fiscal quarter through our fourth fiscal quarter, as we did in fiscal 2011. And then in most years we would anticipate a modest decline in sales from our fourth quarter to our first quarter in the following year due to summer seasonality especially in Europe,” said David Moore (News - Alert) Sangoma's Chief Financial Officer.

Asterisk runs on Linux, BSD, Windows and OS X and does voice over IP in four protocols. It interoperates with almost all standards-based telephony equipment.

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Edited by Stefanie Mosca