By Bo Gowan
13 August 2008
11:31 am EDT
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 …
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By Bo Gowan
17 June 2008
5:22 pm EDT
Tony Rybczynski debates Asterisk vs. xipXecs
Here on Buzzboard, I recently talked about the introduction of Nortel’s new SCS 500, a unified communications platform for SMBs. The “wow” part of the product is the fact that it is open-source, built on sipXecs (from SIPfoundry).
For some, the question that comes up is why Nortel chose to build the SCS 500 on sipXecs, and not Asterisk – since Asterisk seems to have much more visibility and momentum in the open-source space today.
Nortel enterprise guru Tony Rybczynski recently addressed this exact topic over on his blog on TMCnet, with a detailed list of reasons why SIPfoundry’s sipXecs is better …
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