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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
#22wow, pretty amazing they started kind of working on top of Asterisk, with some of their own hardware, building out their own fork of it/pbx software...and now this? Impressed. However I'm curious about Asterisk growth/Digium as it seems like VOIP service from major telcos, in North America anyways, has caught up to what was once a very viable open source alternative. I built asterisk systems for our own in-house multilocation system for years because it was cheaper and offered infinite more control and options. But we phased it out a few years ago because big telco had caught up and offered an easily managed system with alot of the same features, it had just taken them 5-7 years to catch up. The flexibility isn't on par but it's good enough.
Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M
#23Sangoma'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.
Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Seems like a huge hack. What we really need is some kind of etcd for telecoms, where you just configure it and they replicate and share state automatically.
Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M
#25The valuation sounds really low. Is there a reason for that?
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.
Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.
Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Seems like a huge hack. What we really need is some kind of etcd for telecoms, where you just configure it and they replicate and share state automatically.
SIP? This sounds like exactly what SIP does. Or at least a function of what it exposes
Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M
#28The valuation sounds really low. Is there a reason for that?
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...
Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is old battle.... Centrex VS PBX . ( if you are old enough to remember Centrex). Twillio is next-gen Centrex.
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.
Re: Sangoma (FreePBX) to Acquire Digium (Asterisk) for $28M
#30Interesting. I built some VOIP systems on Asterisk about 12 or 13 years ago. It saved a few small companies a ton of money compared to an older proprietary system.