Extend the Life of Your Data Wide Area Network with Sangoma A-Series Telephony Cards

Author: Leo D’Alessandro – Product Marketing Manager, Sangoma Large multi-location retailers rely on Wide-Area-Networks (WAN) to transfer and store data to headquarters to manage inventory. The technology used to do this can differ depending on the age of the retailer, from legacy on-premise equipment to modern cloud-based infrastructures. Today, new retailers are investing in SD-WAN […]

Unique Gateway Requirements

Author: Jim Machi – VP of Marketing, Sangoma On October 2, I wrote a blog titled “Why the World Still Needs Gateways.” I received a few comments about it, ranging from “Right on!” to “You are out of your mind”. To those in the “you are out of your mind” camp, I have to assume […]

The Red Hat Deal & the Value of Open Source

Author: Jim Machi – VP of Marketing, Sangoma IBM is characterizing the Red Hat deal as a deal to further their cloud initiatives, and I’m sure that’s why they did it. But from a different perspective, it also legitimizes open source as a viable business choice. Open source software over the years has been viewed […]

Creating All IP Enterprise Communication Solutions

Author: Jim Machi – VP of Marketing, Sangoma The world is moving inevitably closer to an all IP network, though it will still take a long time to get there. If you wanted to create some kind of all IP enterprise communication solution, how would you start? There’s no real need to utilize any specialized […]

VoIP Gateways & Their Role in Cost Savings for the Hospitality Industry

Author: Leo D’Alessandro – Product Marketing Manager, Sangoma The global hospitality industry has thousands of on premise phone systems (or PBXs) which are 10-25 years old and are in desperate need of a modern replacement. The industry has delayed the replacement of these systems because historically, replacements did not offer any new features or benefits […]

AstriCon Still Rocks 13 Years Later!

Author: Jim Machi – VP of Marketing, Sangoma A couple of weeks ago, I attended Astricon 2018. It had been 13 years since I’d been to an AstriCon. There is still a lot of orange around. A lot. Even Orange pants. And there are still engineer shenanigans at night. Some of it is on social […]

Dialogic Boards & the Enterprise

Author: Jim Machi – VP of Marketing, Sangoma While Dialogic boards are still being sold (by Sangoma) in decent quantities, it’s no secret they aren’t being sold in the quantities they were 15 years ago. The enterprise is one area where Dialogic board sales have suffered. But why is that? One reason obviously is the […]

Asterisk 16 & FreePBX 15 Now Available

Author: Jim Machi – VP of Marketing, Sangoma Today, at the AstriCon Users & Developers Conference, Sangoma just announced that Asterisk 16 and FreePBX 15 are now available. This announcement is monumental not just because these are the next major releases of the world’s two most popular open source communications projects, but because they reiterate […]

Why Does the World Still Need Gateways?

Author: Jim Machi – VP of Marketing, Sangoma Someone at a customer meeting asked me a few weeks ago “Tell me, why does the world still need gateways?”. The answer to that question depends on your perspective. If you live in the IP communications world, and you are a vendor selling phone systems, you don’t […]

Sangoma, Open Source Communications & AstriCon

Author: Jim Machi – VP of Marketing, Sangoma With Sangoma now the primary developer and sponsor of the world’s two most widely used open source communication software programs (Asterisk and FreePBX), I find myself working for the largest open source communications company in the world! And with AstriCon two weeks away, this is a good […]