SIP Trunking Week in Review: Digium, DSCI, GNum

It’s been yet another busy week in the world of SIP Trunking. Here are some of the top stories we’ve been following this week.

Digium, the creators of Asterisk (News - Alert) and Switchvox, is one of the companies responsible for popularizing VoIP with its open source solutions. The company announced its own hosted SIP trunking solution based on Asterisk. True to its open source ideals, it’s based on open standards and will work with any SIP-compliant PBX (News - Alert).

The company also announced the latest version of its flagship Asterisk VoIP PBX software, Asterisk 13. This version is a Long Term Support (LTS) version, which will be supported for four years plus an additional year of bug fixes, as compared to its standard releases which are only supported for one year plus a year of bug fixes.

DSCI, a hosted communications provider, acquired Unified Technologies, a provider of managed IT and hosting services, to increase its footprint in the New York City area. This follows its establishment of a regional sales office in the area.

Telecom & Data announced a line of ruggedized VoIP phones for Guardian Telecom designed for use in hazardous areas like chemical plants, factories and prisons. They’re intended to withstand explosions and fires and support Power over Ethernet (PoE).

GNum, a Singapore-based startup, announced that it received $5.6 million in seed funding for an innovative service that turns phone numbers into URLs. Users can share these URLs with their contacts to get free calls as long as they terminate in Singapore. The company plans to expand into other countries, including Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, with later plans to reach  Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, and the U.S.

Speaking of Singapore, the city-state’s Infocomm Development Authority released a report that said that most of the country’s telecom customers were happy with their providers. Of the 1,500 customers it surveyed, 90 percent of them were aware of early termination fees for mobile plans, and 80 percent for fixed broadband plans.

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