Digium and Fanstel announce a partnership that will help ensure interoperability between Fanstel telephones and Digium products. Fanstel SIP telephones are now “Digium|Asterisk Certified,” allowing companies that want the flexibility and cost-savings of a VoIP platform based on Asterisk Business Edition to benefit from full-featured Fanstel telephones.

Digium is the creator and driving force behind Asterisk, the open source voice communications software deployed by more than 4 million servers worldwide to manage VoIP calls for businesses and individuals. More resellers, telecom professionals and software developers choose Digium's products than those of any other open source telephony company because only Digium delivers the technical superiority, security and flexibility associated with Asterisk. Asterisk powers Digium’s family of software and hardware appliances, including AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox.

Fanstel has delivered high-quality telephone products to 55 countries. A vertically integrated telephone manufacturer with engineering and production facilities, Fanstel offers customization and branding services for made-to-order products. In addition to Asterisk-interoperable and ready-to-use SIP phones, Fanstel makes customization and branding services available to Asterisk communities.

Fanstel SIP phones offer many advanced features, such as multiple line appearances, DND, transfer, pick-up, park/unpark, conferencing, intercom, busy lamp field, XML messaging and auto-provisioning, as required in enterprise applications. In addition, up to five parties can be conferenced locally, saving PBX processing power to support more extensions.