TMCnet's Asterisk Week in Review

Looking at the top Asterisk (News - Alert) news recently, TMC reported that Sangoma Technologies (News - Alert) will host a free full-day, hands-on training session on Jan. 31 at ITEXPO East 2012 in Miami Beach, Florida, to teach attendees how to configure and troubleshoot the Vega series of products.

Sangoma, also a Gold Sponsor of ITEXPO (News - Alert), specializes in providing hardware and software components to companies to setup or enhance their IPCommunications Systems for both telecom and datacom applications. Sangoma’s data boards, voice boards, gateways, and connectivity software are all used in applications worldwide.

“With the escalating global interest in Vega series products, and the marked increase in sales volume that we’ve experienced over the past few months, we feel that it makes good business sense to offer this session at a premier event such as ITEXPO East,” said Simon Horton, Director of product Management for Sangoma.

TMC (News - Alert) also recently conducted an interview with Jeff Dworkin, director of Marketing at Sangoma Technologies about the year ahead. Dworkin will also be speaking at ITEXPO during “Cloud as Part of Your Overall Enterprise Architecture“ and “Capitalizing on the Potential of Cloud Services“.

TMC: How would you describe your outlook for business and the economy at large heading into 2012?

Dworkin: Since our key corporate objective in 2012 is expansion, one of our resulting goals is to build our business in key international markets that are growing faster than the West and are less susceptible (though admittedly not immune) to the economic chaos we see in the world today. As a result, we see nothing but opportunity in front of us. Further, in the geographies of Europe and the U.S. that are under economic pressure, many of Sangoma’s products (and the applications created by our partners from these products) offer increases in productivity and reductions in operational cost. Therefore, we expect to see additional usage of these products in those parts of the world as participants in those economies work to squeeze the most from their investments.

TMC: If there’s one thing you’d like to see happen related to business in the year ahead, what is that one thing?

Dworkin: Resolving the uncertainty in many of the world’s economies would be a great help for all of us. Developing a strategy and a tactical plan to succeed in any economy (being growing, flat or shrinking) is something that good boards of directors should ask of any management team in times like these, and although not easy, it is achievable. However, having to be prepared for any contingency because of these very significant economic problems and uncertainty puts extra stress on every company, so seeing some of those issues get resolved successfully would be most welcome. One thing that is clear: The weak companies may not survive.

Also recently, Sangoma's Vega 5000 Gateway (News - Alert) was selected Product of the Year by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. TMC named its Vega 5000: Analog Media Gateway as a recipient of the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award.

“We are delighted that the editors and executives TMC and INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine have recognized the Vega 5000 for its reliability and flexibility in solving the interconnectivity issues that continually challenge network service providers and enterprises,” said Frederic Dickey, director of product management of Sangoma. “As more and more customers look to leverage cloud- and IP-based applications and features, gateways like the Vega 5000 will become an essential solution for connecting these emerging solutions with legacy hardware and network service.”

Designed to simplify the integration of legacy voice communications systems with an IP infrastructure, the Vega 5000 provides companies with a cost-effective option for leveraging new IP-based technologies within their existing infrastructure. The Vega 5000 is a 1u rack-mountable chassis supporting from 16 to 50 ports for telephone stations, two ports for connectivity, and full-duplex Ethernet connectivity to an IP infrastructure.

It provides support for many popular voice codecs and for voice, fax and modem connectivity, and has built-in enterprise-class calling and call control features such as least cost routing, call waiting, call forwarding, conference and hold.

Interested in learning more about Asterisk? Then be sure to attend Asterisk World, collocated with TMC’s ITEXPO East 2012, taking place Jan. 31-Feb. 3 2012, in Miami, FL. Asterisk World is focused on Asterisk business users and potential users who are interested in getting more in depth experience with Asterisk, and who also want to learn more from Asterisk adopters and see what's happening in the market.  Offering flexibility unheard of in the world of proprietary communications, Asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions. For more information on registering for Asterisk World, click here.

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