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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 spditner »

Rjevski wrote: post #8
kimi wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can scale Asterisk up quite a bit (we have customers with clusters of 50+ boxes) and every telecom uses it some way or the other.

How do you share state between them?

The state you tend to store is in the application side, so it still backs onto things like SQL databases in the end. You'd put another service in front of your Asterisk instances like OpenSIPS or Kamailio to distribute load.

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

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Post by spditner »

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.marketwired.com/press-release/sangoma-announces-t...

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

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Post by Rjevski »

kimi wrote: post #6
naushit wrote: post #2

wow....that's really cheap. Considering Asterisk's market share for VOIP ports.

But they were bleeding money, and just sold $30M total last year. Lots of people use Asterisk (it's basically everywhere - whatever you call - dentist, doctor, plumber... - they have the default Asterisk music-on-hold), but not all of them put a coin in the box. :)

They're everywhere because they're already there, but doesn't mean new boxes are being installed.

Personally I wouldn't use it; I'd just write some quick code with Twilio (using Twilio functions or a companion app running on Heroku for the business logic) and let them handle it. Less maintenance overhead.

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

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Post by xroche »

naushit wrote: post #2

wow....that's really cheap. Considering Asterisk's market share for VOIP ports.

And they also have a very decent line or hardware. Digium cards used to be the de-facto standard to build quickly a small PBX system, and I really appreciated their quality.

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

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Post by naushit »

Rjevski wrote: post #18
kimi wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they were bleeding money, and just sold $30M total last year. Lots of people use Asterisk (it's basically everywhere - whatever you call - dentist, doctor, plumber... - they have the default Asterisk music-on-hold), but not all of them put a coin in the box. :)

They're everywhere because they're already there, but doesn't mean new boxes are being installed. Personally I wouldn't use it; I'd just write some quick code with Twilio (using Twilio functions or a companion app running on Heroku for the business logic) and let them handle it. Less maintenance overhead.

This is old battle.... Centrex VS PBX . ( if you are old enough to remember Centrex). Twillio is next-gen Centrex.
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