Shu Fan
Fanstel Corp.
480.948.4928
sfan@fanstel.com
Jane Brooks
Digium, Inc.
256.428.6075
jbrooks@digium.com
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., and SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—June 2, 2008 — Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, and Fanstel Corp. today announced a partnership that will help ensure interoperability between Fanstel telephones and Digium products. Fanstel SIP telephones are now "Digium|Asterisk Certified", allowing 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.
Digium is the creator and driving force behind Asterisk, the open source voice communications software deployed by more than 4 million servers worldwide to manage VoIP calls for businesses and individuals. More resellers, telecom professionals and software developers choose Digium's products than those of any other open source telephony company because only Digium delivers the technical superiority, security and flexibility associated with Asterisk. Asterisk powers Digium's family of software and hardware appliances, including AsteriskNOW™, Asterisk Business Edition™ and Switchvox™.
Fanstel, founded in 1990, is a leading manufacturer of carrier-grade and enterprise-grade telephone products. Fanstel has delivered high-quality telephone products to 55 countries. A vertically integrated telephone manufacturer with engineering and production facilities, Fanstel offers customization and branding services for made-to-order products. In addition to Asterisk-interoperable and ready-to-use SIP phones, Fanstel makes customization and branding services available to Asterisk communities.
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, as required in enterprise applications. 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. "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, director of technology partnerships at Digium, commented: "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."
About Fanstel
Fanstel established in 1990, was one of the earliest pioneers of the Caller ID industry. Since then, the company has grown and diversified, and now offers analog business telephones as well as telephones taking advantage of cutting-edge VoIP technology to serve PBX, small business and consumer markets. The company's headquarters are in Scottsdale, Arizona; its engineering department is located in Taipei, Taiwan; and its factory in Shen Zhen, China. For additional information, please visit www.fanstel.com.
About Digium
Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium offers Asterisk software free to the open source community and offers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX Software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company's product line includes a wide range of hardware to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey solutions or to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems. More information is available at www.digium.com.
The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, Asterisk SCF, Switchvox, Asterisk Business Edition, AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Appliance and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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