Chuck Tanowitz
Schwartz Communications
781-684-0770
digium@schwartz-pr.com
Kristine Gager
Welz & Weisel Communications
703-218-3555 ext 224
kristine@w2comm.com
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – March 25, 2009 – Digium, the Asterisk® Company, today announced the interoperability of its award-winning, web-aware Switchvox® IP PBX with MegaPath’s Duet™ SIP Trunking service. MegaPath, the leading provider of managed IP data, voice and security services in North America, gives customers the ability to leverage Digium’s IP PBX to support the company’s voice and data communications services. Used together, Switchvox and the MegaPath Duet service can create substantial savings on voice and data services for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs).
Digium’s Switchvox® IP PBX has been certified to work with MegaPath’s Duet™ SIP Trunking service, thereby streamlining adoption of the Switchvox telephony system. Switchvox is a low-cost VoIP and unified communications solution built on the open source Asterisk platform. MegaPath’s Duet SIP Trunking is 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. As part of MegaPath’s fully managed Duet line of services, Duet SIP Trunking is a low-cost, high-speed Internet and feature-rich voice bundle that is ideal for small to medium-sized businesses.
Bill Miller, vice president of product management at Digium, said: “MegaPath is a strong Digium partner and one whose services we feel add substantial value for Switchvox customers—without a big price tag. For Switchvox users, interoperability means that they can easily select MegaPath as their services provider and be confident in the solution choice for their business.”
“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.”
Today’s announcement begins a relationship between two leading providers of VoIP services and solutions for businesses. 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.
About MegaPath Duet and Switchvox
MegaPath’s Duet SIP Trunking service is delivered over a private circuit and prioritizes voice traffic over data traffic. This prioritization gives customers a high-level of call quality to meet their business needs. In addition, the service includes voice and data features such as T1 Internet access, Domain Name Management, 50 email accounts, spam filtering and static IPs. For more information on MegaPath’s Duet SIP Trunking and other Duet services, visit www.megapath.com/products/duet/?type=analog
Switchvox SMB is the feature-rich, cost-effective IP PBX designed for small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Switchvox’s unique web-aware capabilities allow its integration with web and back office applications, turning the phone system into a powerful unified communications (UC) platform, with no programming knowledge required. Switchvox provides a full-featured VoIP telephony system that integrates with key CRM applications such as Salesforce.com and SugarCRM through Switchvox’s SMB Switchboard interface.
About MegaPath Inc.
MegaPath is the leading provider of managed IP communications services in North America. MegaPath leverages its wide selection of broadband connectivity, Virtual Private Networks, Voice over IP (VoIP) and security technologies to enable businesses to lower costs, increase security and enhance productivity. Businesses of all sizes can easily and securely communicate between their headquarters, branch offices, retail locations, mobile workers, and business partners. To learn more about why over 23,000 companies have chosen MegaPath’s managed IP data, voice and security services to improve their business communications, visit www.megapath.com or call 1-877-MegaPath (634-2728).
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 interface telephony cards to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey business phone system 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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