Digium, the Asterisk Company, has announced the interoperability of its Web-aware Switchvox (
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IP PBX with MegaPath’s Duet
SIP Trunking service. MegaPath, a provider of managed
IP data, voice and security services in North America, gives customers the ability to leverage Digium’s IP PBX (
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Bill Miller (
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TMC (
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blog, “…companies like MegaPath Inc, [are] look[ing] to
become a trusted partner in deploying networks which are secure, reasonably priced and great at packet prioritization.”
This, in today’s market looks to be worth-wild in the long run if these companies wish to stay on-top of this economic rollercoaster. Today’s announcement begins a relationship between two leading providers of VoIP services and solutions for businesses. And why shouldn’t companies work together. This way of doing business could not only benefit the end user with better products, but also better service.
Digium’s Switchvox IP PBX has been certified to work with MegaPath’s
Duet SIP Trunking service, by streamlining adoption of the Switchvox telephony system. Switchvox is a low-cost
VoIP and
unified communications solution built on the open source Asterisk (
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A business-class phone and Internet T1 service that is delivered over a private, all-optical MPLS nationwide network using an existing IP-PBX system, MegaPath’s Duet SIP Trunking works as part of MegaPath’s fully managed Duet line of services.
“By certifying a wide array of equipment to work with our Duet service, MegaPath is ensuring that our customers have the confidence to select the hardware that best fits their infrastructure and budgetary requirements,” said Beth Tyebjee, senior vice president of marketing at MegaPath.
“MegaPath is committed to providing small and medium-sized businesses with enterprise-class service without requiring investments in additional infrastructure. The certification of Digium’s Switchvox IP PBX provides Duet customers with the quality and reliability they demand, and we are helping ensure that these organizations can increase productivity without worrying about the performance of their VoIP system,” Tyebjee continued.
MegaPath provides managed IP communications services to more than 23,000 businesses across the United States. Digium’s Asterisk is the world’s most widely used open source telephony software, and Switchvox is the most widely used customer premises-based commercial IP PBX based on Asterisk.
Jessica Kostek is a channel editor for TMCnet, covering VoIP, CRM, call center and wireless technologies. To read more of Jessica’s articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by
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