Digium Mobile App For SwitchVox Wins 2011 Enterprise App Award from CRN

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Digiums SwitchVox has won the prestigious "The Appys" award, 2011 Enterprise App Award from CRN.

"The mobile workforce demands the same communications experience whether on the move or at the office. Switchvox offers fixed mobile convergence and complete mobile integration at no additional cost to our business customers. It's gratifying to receive this honor from CRN which further illustrates the tremendous value that Digium brings to its resellers and customers." Leslie Conway, vice president of global marketing for Digium,stated.

Switchvox Mobile applications run on the iPhone, Blackberry, Android phones and tablets.The users of the Switchvox Mobile applications, can make, receive, transfer and record calls as if they were calling from their office extension. They will also be able to check messages, change call rules, modify recorded greetings, access a company directory, review call history and more.
Via Digiun Press Release.

Digium / SwitchVox Gets A New Nothern California Partner, Teledynamic Communications Inc

Switchvox IP PBX
Digium, the Open Source Asterisk base Switchvox IP PBX creator has entered in to an agreement to have Teledynamic Communications Inc as a representative in Northern California. With the agreement, Teledynamic will be able to provide San Francisco bay area business with access to economically priced, open source based IP PBX, SwitchVox.

"Businesses are looking to squeeze more out of smaller IT budgets while still driving to improve productivity through smart uses of technology. The Switchvox provides Unified Communications, Google and Salesforce integration, affordable conferencing and much more for up to 50% less than the proprietary manufacturers. Businesses just aren't willing to pay a premium in this new world we live in." says Randy Kremlacek, President of Teledynamic Communications.

Digium is the creator of Asterisk, the open source voice communications software deployed by more than 3.5 million servers worldwide. Digium Asterisk (Switchvox) is the most widely used Open Source PBX, and dominates in market share with more than 85% of the Open Source market, with Aastra and Fonality the next two largest players.

Teledynamic Communications was founded in 1979 and serves the greater San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose area, providing consultation, pbx installation, maintenance, remote monitoring and support plans. The company specializes in call centers, audio and video conferencing, unified communications, hosted PBX and VOIP trunking.

Teledynamic Communications

Digium Switchvox

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Switchvox Developer Central Beta Test Suite Walkthrough

SwitchVox Developer Central
Since Digium launched the announced the Switchvox Developer Central Beta, (an online community for developers who are integrating voice and web applications using the Switchvox unified communications solution), a lot has been happening.
The latest addition that one of us tested was the toolbox feature Switchvox Extend API Test Suite which allows you to test any API method calls online. It seemed a bit difficult for me but all that doubt went away after I saw a video, "video walk through SwitchVox Developer Central" posted on the Digium Blog.
The Switchvox Developer Central Beta, and the associated tools and the community are a great asset if you are working with SwitchVox. Please also do not forget to have a look at sections like featured applications and the blog. If you are a beginner, getting started section is the start, (it was for me). Link to the site after the jump;


Switchvox Developer Central Beta
Digium Blog Article

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SwitchVox Developer Central

SwitchVox / Digium
Digium, announced the Switchvox Developer Central, an online community for developers who are integrating voice and web applications using the Switchvox unified communications solution. Switchvox is a part of Digium’s family of voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems and solutions for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).

Complete Press Release and Media Kit;
05.19.2009 – HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--Digium(R), Inc., the Asterisk(R) Company, today unveiled Switchvox Developer Central, an online community for developers who are integrating voice and web applications using the Switchvox unified communications solution. Switchvox is Digium's family of voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Switchvox systems, which are based on the open source Asterisk telephony platform, are cost-effective, easy to use and full of features that are typically found only in expensive PBXs.

Available since April, Switchvox SMB 4.0 includes the new Switchvox Extend API. This new toolset lets developers integrate Switchvox with their business applications using an XML API, IVR management tools and event notifications. Utilities such as Fire Dialer, the click-to-call extension for Firefox, or the Switchvox Outlook Plugin are examples of the applications that can be created using the Switchvox Extend API. The newly released API is currently in beta.

Switchvox Developer Central is a website for developers to connect with one another to share ideas and solve problems. It includes a wiki containing all documentation for the Switchvox Extend API, a forum for ongoing discussion, a blog for the Digium engineering team to post news to the community, and tools to simplify development and testing. Digium’s new developer crossroads, http://developers.digium.com, lets users choose their development platform or path—Asterisk.org if they want to contribute directly to the open source software or Switchvox Developer Central if they want to integrate with Switchvox using the Switchvox Extend API.

"The Extend API was one of the most important new capabilities released in Switchvox SMB 4.0 and we want to provide documentation for it in a living format," said Joshua Stephens, general manager of Digium's San Diego operations, where Switchvox is developed. "An administrator or reseller of a Switchvox system can integrate their phone system with a custom web application that's completely tailored to their business or an employee's job function. If they have the skills to create the web application, integrating with Switchvox will be easy because they can use whatever programming language they're comfortable with, so there's virtually no learning curve or specialized knowledge required. If they've worked with any web-based API before, this is going to look really familiar, so they should be able to ramp up quickly."

Tags: SwitchVox, Digium, voip news, Asterisk

New Digium Partner Springs Hosting To Provide SwitchVox Hosting Targeting SMB.

Digium Partners
Digium has joined hands with Springs Hosing of Colorado to provide Small and Medium Business with Switchvox IP telephone systems in Colorado. Digium the creator of Asterisk Open Source and very well known in the communications world as the most used open source telephony service provider. Springs Hosting located it Colorado Springs provides state of the art data center services.

“We are proud to add the Digium product line to our services,” said Jeremy Keefe, CIO at Springs Hosting. “Switchvox compliments the services that we bring to small to medium sized businesses in Colorado and brings high-end phone systems to businesses that otherwise could not generally afford the rich feature sets within Digium’s software.”

“We are excited to have Springs Hosting come on board with Digium as a Select Reseller,” said Jim Butler, director of global channel sales for Digium. “They are dedicated to their clients and provide excellent customer service, which are qualities that we find highly valuable in our resellers.”
Digium Press Release.

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Digium Introduces SwitchVox SMB 4.0 At ITEXPO East.

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Digium releases SwitchVox SMB 4.0 at the ITEXPO East. Digium's SwitchVox family includes:

• A fully-functional free edition (Switchvox Free Edition)
• A commercial-ready basic business version (Switchvox SOHO)

in addition to the full-featured business version with all the bells and whistles (Switchvox SMB).

With the version 4.0, SwitchVox brings following enhancements according to a news release by Digium; For a comprehensive description of features, please visit www.digium.com/switchvox.

• Fax integration-Users can send and receive faxes quickly and easily via Switchvox.
• Video calling-Switchvox supports video phones that use the codec standards H.263 and H.264.
• Instant messaging-Switchvox includes a private chat server that uses the widely adopted, open XMPP protocol. The Switchvox Switchboard offers a Chat Panel, or users can select their favorite XMPP-based client.
• Centralized presence-Presence and status details for call and chat activity are visible across multiple peered Switchvox PBXs.
• Web-aware interactive voice response (IVR) tools-Switchvox includes many new IVR functions for building custom applications. These sophisticated tools include exchanging sound files with web applications, setting system-wide variables and more.
• Unified messaging enhancements-IMAP integration provides a standards-based solution for voicemail and faxes. Also, users can customize multiple greetings and e-mail notifications optimized for display on a wide range of devices.
• Organized phonebooks-Employees can organize their contacts into groups and keep multiple phone numbers for each contact. Also, a company directory panel uses type-to-find to help users find extensions quickly for any of their coworkers.
• Call queue improvements-Small businesses and call centers alike will benefit from the ability to log into, log out of and pause a member's status on each queue with a single click, and even add comments that are displayed to supervisors or other queue members.
• Switchvox Notifier-A Windows desktop client provides interaction with MS Office applications. Pop-up notifications show incoming caller details and call history, and one-click options let users quickly add Outlook contacts and dial phone numbers.
• Switchvox Extend-An XML-based API lets administrators create new extensions and access call logs, reports and extension lists.
• Auto-provisioning snom IP phones-Switchvox offers automatic configuration of VoIP phones manufactured by snom technology and Polycom.
• More call options-Switchvox supports BRI-an important step toward expanded international sales, and HD Voice-high-quality wideband audio delivered via the G.722 protocol.

Pricing and Availability
Switchvox SMB 4.0 is available free of charge to customers with a current Switchvox SMB software subscription. For new customers, pricing for Switchvox SMB remains unchanged and begins at U.S. $3,390 for a 10 user system, including hardware, software, a one-year subscription and warranty. The entire line of Switchvox SMB appliances, the largest of which scales to serve 400 users, will be available from Digium and partners world-wide beginning on March 3, 2009. Digium is showing Switchvox SMB 4.0 alongside the company's family of software, appliances and hardware at Digium|Asterisk World at ITEXPO, held February 2-4, 2009, at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

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