Digium Inc., the Asterisk (News - Alert) Company, and Fanstel Corp. have announced a partnership that is designed to help ensure interoperability between Fanstel telephones and Digium products.

Fanstel (News - Alert) SIP telephones are now “DigiumpipeAsteriskCertified.” This certification allows companies that want the flexibility and cost-savings of a voice over IP (VoIP) platform based on Asterisk Business Edition to benefit from full-featured Fanstel telephones.

As the creator and driving force behind Asterisk, Digium (News - Alert) helps to promote the open source voice communications software deployed by more than 4 million servers worldwide to manage VoIP calls for businesses and individuals.

 

Digium products are chosen more than any other open source telephony company by more resellers, telecom professionals and software developers. The company focuses on delivering the technical superiority, security and flexibility associated with Asterisk, which powers Digium’s family of software and hardware appliances.

Founded in 1990, Fanstel is a manufacturer of carrier-grade and enterprise-grade telephone products. Fanstel has delivered high-quality telephone products to 55 countries.

The company offers customization and branding services for made-to-order products. Asterisk-interoperable and ready-to-use SIP phones are also available, making Fanstel customization and branding services available to Asterisk communities.

As required in enterprise applications, Fanstel SIP phones offer many advanced features, such as multiple line appearances, DND, transfer, pick-up, park/unpark, conferencing, intercom, busy lamp field, XML messaging and auto-provisioning. In addition, up to five parties can be conferenced locally, saving PBX processing power to support more extensions.

"Fanstel is committed to support Asterisk, the leading open source VoIP platform, and will continue to expand Asterisk-interoperable product lines," said Yuan Fan, President at Fanstel, in a Monday statement.

 

"Interoperability with Asterisk Business Edition is important to a growing number of our customers and partners, so we've taken the important step of becoming a Digium partner and deepening our relationship with the company."

Jim Webster (News - Alert), director of technology partnerships at Digium, commented in Monday’s statement: "We're happy to partner with Fanstel and to make the combination of that company's SIP telephones and telephony systems based on Asterisk Business Edition an option for companies worldwide. We believe the offering will be a compelling one for small to mid-sized businesses in the U.S. and abroad."

Open source software is gaining in popularity as both organizations and developers are recognizing the benefits that such a platform can deliver. As such, the demand for Asterisk solutions is growing, creating more market opportunity for Digium and its partners.

Such opportunities create an exciting marketplace for Fanstel as it can capitalize on this partnership and the growing acceptance of open source to drive its own demand. In doing so, the company is building on the strength of the Digium brand while expanding its own reach.

 

 

 

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