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Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

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Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

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Post by woodson »

yusyusyus wrote: post #29
Rjevski wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not really old enough to have experienced Centrex, but for small businesses its promises makes sense from a business point of view. Less maintenance/support overhead is a huge plus.

sounds good. until you run conferencing services or whatever. Then the pricing is pretty simple: buying wholesale SIP and operating on your own is substantially cheaper. irl maintenance is pretty straightforward. I do it as a side thing to my main job.

Somewhat off-topic, but what wholesale SIP provider would you recommend? Looking for something small-scale for now, pay as you go as opposed to $X,000/month.

Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

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Post by jaboutboul »

brewrwe wrote: post #28
godzillabrennus wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their business is in the decline I would imagine. As others have stated, their features are now found in many low cost proprietary solutions. No reason to pay a tax to use open source unless you believe in it.

Most low cost solutions are based on Asterisk or Freeswitch...

absolutely not true!! and other competitors like 3cx have been eating their lunch for years. the fact of the matter is FreePBX, even for the most knowledgeable audience is still a PITA to work with and configure.

Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

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Post by Rjevski »

woodson wrote: post #31
yusyusyus wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sounds good. until you run conferencing services or whatever. Then the pricing is pretty simple: buying wholesale SIP and operating on your own is substantially cheaper. irl maintenance is pretty straightforward. I do it as a side thing to my main job.

Somewhat off-topic, but what wholesale SIP provider would you recommend? Looking for something small-scale for now, pay as you go as opposed to $X,000/month.

Nexmo is quite good.

Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

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Post by spditner »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #23
spditner wrote: post #16

Sangoma's doing a good job of consolidating the SMB Telephony market. They bought Schmooze Com Inc.[1] (owners of FreePBX, the largest Asterisk based Linux distro), Dialogic's hardware business, and VoIP Supply[3] (where most independent VARs order phones from). [1] https://www.freepbx.org/sangoma-completes-the-acquisition-of... [2] https://www.dialogic.com/2018-01-09-sangoma-announces-sixth-... [3] http://www.market…

Former Asterisk guy here! The industry needed this consolidation 10 years ago. Glad to see it’s finally happening. So much talent has left the space now that it absolutely had to happen. Sangoma is a great company and I’m sure they will do a great job.

Indeed, I ran a large-ish asterisk user group for years in Toronto and know a number of people at Digium and Sangoma, and there was always a bit of animosity between them. Glad to see them finally coming together.

Most of the talent I know took a step to the right (like myself) and are working with WebRTC. It's all the same stuff! Just more signalling layers on top of RTP channel management. I quite often end up doing SIP over WebRTC with things like sip.js (still backing onto Asterisk and FreeSWITCH) and XMPP over WebRTC with jitsi-meet.

Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

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Post by wiphonica »

yusyusyus wrote: post #29
Rjevski wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not really old enough to have experienced Centrex, but for small businesses its promises makes sense from a business point of view. Less maintenance/support overhead is a huge plus.

sounds good. until you run conferencing services or whatever. Then the pricing is pretty simple: buying wholesale SIP and operating on your own is substantially cheaper. irl maintenance is pretty straightforward. I do it as a side thing to my main job.

How can I contact you?

Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

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Post by singularity2001 »

spditner wrote: post #16

Sangoma's doing a good job of consolidating the SMB Telephony market. They bought Schmooze Com Inc.[1] (owners of FreePBX, the largest Asterisk based Linux distro), Dialogic's hardware business, and VoIP Supply[3] (where most independent VARs order phones from). [1] https://www.freepbx.org/sangoma-completes-the-acquisition-of... [2] https://www.dialogic.com/2018-01-09-sangoma-announces-sixth-... [3] http://www.market…

> Sangoma's doing a good job of consolidating.

Does that mean they are doing a good job creating yet another monopoly? Seriously courageous. Are there other players left?

Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

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Post by wiphonica »

woodson wrote: post #31
yusyusyus wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

sounds good. until you run conferencing services or whatever. Then the pricing is pretty simple: buying wholesale SIP and operating on your own is substantially cheaper. irl maintenance is pretty straightforward. I do it as a side thing to my main job.

Somewhat off-topic, but what wholesale SIP provider would you recommend? Looking for something small-scale for now, pay as you go as opposed to $X,000/month.

We are wholesale SIP provider. email in info. contact me offline.

Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M

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Post by downrightmike »

singularity2001 wrote: post #38
spditner wrote: post #16

Sangoma's doing a good job of consolidating the SMB Telephony market. They bought Schmooze Com Inc.[1] (owners of FreePBX, the largest Asterisk based Linux distro), Dialogic's hardware business, and VoIP Supply[3] (where most independent VARs order phones from). [1] https://www.freepbx.org/sangoma-completes-the-acquisition-of... [2] https://www.dialogic.com/2018-01-09-sangoma-announces-sixth-... [3] http://www.market…

> Sangoma's doing a good job of consolidating. Does that mean they are doing a good job creating yet another monopoly? Seriously courageous. Are there other players left?

Dialogic is still going strong on their virtualized offerings.
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