Digium and Integrics have partnered around the sales and marketing of Integrics’ Enswitch to carriers worldwide. The agreement provides a route for closer technical, sales and marketing collaboration between the companies and expands Digium’s involvement in the carrier market.

Digium is the creator and driving force behind Asterisk, the open source telephony 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 Switchvox, Asterisk Business Edition and AsteriskNOW.

Integrics sells Enswitch to telecommunications companies, Internet telephony service providers, VoIP providers and others to allow them to create offerings such as full-featured, telephone management and billing solutions, calling card integration, toll free and number translation services, voicemail, call queuing, automatic call distributor, fax to email and multi-level interactive voice response.

Enswitch is based on Digium’s Asterisk Business Edition or open source Asterisk, based on each customer’s preference, as well as other open source software such as OpenSER, MySQL and Linux. Enswitch runs on a single machine or on an Asterisk/OpenSER cluster and supports high availability and failover, allowing for failure of any single machine with only a few seconds of interruption to service. The clustered architecture, which can be geographically distributed, also allows additional machines to be added as the customer’s network grows.