Aastra Telecom Achieves Digium Asterisk Premier Interoperability Partner Status; Aastra Becomes a Member of Digium's Partner Program
CONCORD, ONTARIO, Canada & HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2006--Aastra Technologies Limited (TSX:AAH), a leading global provider of traditional and VoIP communication products and systems, and Digium(R), Inc., the Asterisk(R) company, today announced that Aastra(R) has joined the Digium Partner Program as a Premier Interoperability Partner. Terms of the agreement confirm continued full interoperability between Aastra's complete family of IP telephones and the Digium Asterisk Business Edition(TM).
Under the terms of the partnership program, all of Aastra's standards-based IP phones were tested and validated prior to being certified interoperable with the Digium Asterisk Business Edition. This validation further demonstrates Aastra's ongoing commitment to ensuring that its products tightly integrate and support leading VoIP application platforms such as the Digium Asterisk Business Edition.
"By partnering with innovative companies like Aastra we can offer the business community more options and features when building high-end telephony systems based on Asterisk," said Jim Webster, director of software technologies at Digium. "We look forward to working together with Aastra to expand the VoIP market and at the same time, communicate the important role open source will play in furthering the telecom market."
"Aastra Telecom has an established reputation for providing carrier/enterprise-grade quality products that bring value and performance to the desktop as an important component of fully integrated end-to-end IP communications solutions," said Yves Laliberte, Executive Vice President of Sales at Aastra Telecom. "Achieving Premier Interoperability Partner status with Digium affirms our commitment to ensuring Digium's customers will have additional flexibility and choice in the terminals they deploy with the Asterisk Business Edition."
About Digium
Digium, the Asterisk company, is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform. Digium provides hardware and software products, including the Asterisk Business Edition(TM), its professional grade version of Asterisk, to enterprises and telecommunications providers worldwide. Digium also offers a full range of professional services including consulting, technical support and custom software development services.
Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures. Digium's offerings include legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, next generation gateways, media servers and application servers. Additional information can be found at www.digium.com.
About Asterisk
Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc., has been contributed to from open source software engineers around the world. Currently boasting over 1 million users, Asterisk supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, and VoIP packet protocols such as IAX, SIP and H.323. It supports U.S. and European standard signaling types used in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure.
About Aastra
Aastra Technologies Limited, the parent company of Aastra Telecom, is a rapidly growing global company at the forefront of the Enterprise Communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive portfolio of products, systems, and applications for building and accessing communication networks. Aastra's products include a full range of both open-standard Internet Protocol (IP)-based and traditional networking solutions including; Enterprise Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs), gateways, digital and analog telephone terminals, VoIP telephones, wireless handsets, and advanced software applications. For more information on Aastra, please visit our Web site at http://www.aastratelecom.com
The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. Aastra is a registered trademark of Aastra Technologies.
Under the terms of the partnership program, all of Aastra's standards-based IP phones were tested and validated prior to being certified interoperable with the Digium Asterisk Business Edition. This validation further demonstrates Aastra's ongoing commitment to ensuring that its products tightly integrate and support leading VoIP application platforms such as the Digium Asterisk Business Edition.
"By partnering with innovative companies like Aastra we can offer the business community more options and features when building high-end telephony systems based on Asterisk," said Jim Webster, director of software technologies at Digium. "We look forward to working together with Aastra to expand the VoIP market and at the same time, communicate the important role open source will play in furthering the telecom market."
"Aastra Telecom has an established reputation for providing carrier/enterprise-grade quality products that bring value and performance to the desktop as an important component of fully integrated end-to-end IP communications solutions," said Yves Laliberte, Executive Vice President of Sales at Aastra Telecom. "Achieving Premier Interoperability Partner status with Digium affirms our commitment to ensuring Digium's customers will have additional flexibility and choice in the terminals they deploy with the Asterisk Business Edition."
About Digium
Digium, the Asterisk company, is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform. Digium provides hardware and software products, including the Asterisk Business Edition(TM), its professional grade version of Asterisk, to enterprises and telecommunications providers worldwide. Digium also offers a full range of professional services including consulting, technical support and custom software development services.
Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures. Digium's offerings include legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, next generation gateways, media servers and application servers. Additional information can be found at www.digium.com.
About Asterisk
Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc., has been contributed to from open source software engineers around the world. Currently boasting over 1 million users, Asterisk supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, and VoIP packet protocols such as IAX, SIP and H.323. It supports U.S. and European standard signaling types used in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure.
About Aastra
Aastra Technologies Limited, the parent company of Aastra Telecom, is a rapidly growing global company at the forefront of the Enterprise Communication market. Headquartered in Concord, Ontario, Canada, Aastra develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive portfolio of products, systems, and applications for building and accessing communication networks. Aastra's products include a full range of both open-standard Internet Protocol (IP)-based and traditional networking solutions including; Enterprise Private Branch Exchanges (PBXs), gateways, digital and analog telephone terminals, VoIP telephones, wireless handsets, and advanced software applications. For more information on Aastra, please visit our Web site at http://www.aastratelecom.com
The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. Aastra is a registered trademark of Aastra Technologies.
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