Digium and BroadSoft have announced that Digium's Switchvox IP PBX is certified to work with BroadSoft's BroadWorks VoIP application platform.

Since BroadSoft provides VoIP apps to eight of the world's ten largest telecommunications companies, and Asterisk is the world's most widely used open source telephony, this should mean that carriers using BroadWorks should feel comfortable with selling Switchvox turnkey IP PBX solutions to SMBs. Switchvox should go well with SIP trunking options, so carriers should have another option beyond hosted and all the proprietary solutions floating around.

One might suppose this is part of a larger "Play well with others" strategy by Digium. A few weeks ago, Digium announced it was building an interoperability solution between Asterisk and Skype.

For more:
- Broadsoft's release [1] on Switchvox/BroadWorks interoperabiliy

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