Nortel acquires Pingtel
This morning Nortel issued this press release announcing the acquisition of Pingtel. This acquisition strengthens Nortel’s efforts in providing an open-source unified communications solution.
Back in April, I blogged about Nortel’s new open-source UC solution for SMBs, the SCS 500. The SCS 500 is based on sipXecs (not Asterisk), which is a SIP-based open-source IP-PBX platform for VoIP. To-date, Nortel has contributed more than 300 new applications and features to sipXecs, helping transform its use into a full-featured unified communications platform capable of integrating VoIP, instant messaging, presence, on-demand audio/video conferencing, and unified messaging.
So how does Pingtel relate to all this?
Well it turns out that …
