Astricon 2005: Sponsors and partners

Arranged by:

E-mail: info@astricon.net

Diamond partner:

Platinum sponsors:

Gold sponsors :

Silver sponsors :

Media partners :

Spanish partner:

Time for your company to become an Astricon sponsor? Please contact us at: info@astricon.net for a copy of the sponsorship agreement.

No sponsorship include the right to a speaker's slot. Speakers are choosen based on skills and general interest only.

Diamond partner

Based in high-tech Huntsville, Alabama, Digium™ is the creator and primary developer of Asterisk™, the industry's first Open Source PBX. Used in combination with Digium's™ PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk™ offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over TDM, switched, and Ethernet architectures.

Digium™ solutions reduce the costs of traditional TDM and VoIP implementations through Open Source, standards-based software and next-generation gateways, media servers, and application servers. Digium™ hardware supports traditional voice protocols, including PRI, RBS, FXS, FXO, E&M, Feature Group D, Groundstart, and Loopstart. Data protocols include PPP, Cisco HDLC, and Frame Relay. For packet voice, Asterisk supports IAX™ (Inter-Asterisk™ eXchange), SIP, MGCP, Skinny, and H.323 VoIP protocols.

Digium™ provides a highly refined selection of quality hardware and software products, developed and implemented using innovative engineering techniques (primarily Open Source development). A full range of professional services complement these product lines, including consulting, technical support, and custom software development services.

The Open Source communications revolution is here, and Digium™ is leading the way.

Platinum sponsors

Aheeva, a company based in Montreal is specialist in multimedia contact center and business solutions. Aheeva helps companies understand and manage customer interactions more efficiently and increase agent productivity. Aheeva provides businesses and contact centers with the tools to increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and increase revenues. Aheeva's solutions include:

Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR)
Text-To-Speech (TTS)
Advanced Speech Recognition (ASR)
C++, Java, JSP and VXML development
e-Service and Internet solutions

Aheeva's mission: At Aheeva, our mission is to provide clients with a high return on investment by working closely with customers, understanding their needs and delivering high quality solutions with the right tools and technologies

Aheeva's solutions: Aheeva offers the following solutions:

IP contact center solution
IP PBX
Quality Monitoring tools
Contact Center Reporting
Interactive Voice Response solutions (IVR)
Tailored application
Voice XML development
Automated Speech Recognition (ASR)
Text-to-speech (TTS)
Turnkey services
IVR In Front
Technology consulting

Have Asterisk™ ? Need dialtone?
Voop connects your Asterisk™ PBX to the local and international telephony network (IP, PSTN, ISDN and cellular)

With Voop you no longer need to install a telephony-card in your Asterisk™ PBX. Your own Asterisk™ PBX is connected to Voop using IAX2. Our services are based on IP technology and open software standards.

Voop will build a pan-European network and will be present in most of the European countries within this year. We expect to achieve a major market share in the Asterisk™ public gateway-market within only a few months.

Great rates for Agents and partners.
We also offer interesting solutions for OEM IP providers (“white labels").
To fully service your interests and requirements, you can prearrange a meeting at Astricon by sending us an e-mail at dial@voop.net.

We look forward to seeing you all at Astricon!
Visit our booth at Astricon 15th – 17th of June 2005.

Voop - The Asterisk™ Dialtone

Telappliant is the leading UK and European provider of best-of-breed Enterprise-level IP Telephony solutions. Having a vast customer base and over 2 years of Voice Over IP (VoIP) deployment experience, Telappliant delivers a wide range of VoIP solutions, such as its VoIPOffice IP PBX solution, to White Label services. Telappliant is also a key distribution partner for leading manufacturers such as Digium and Grandstream.

Telappliant owns and operates the VoIPtalk network. VoIPtalk enables users to make and receive free calls from all over the world as well as taking advantage of features such as Unified Messaging, Intelligent Call Divert and SMS callback. Subscribers can make low-cost calls to worldwide destinations and obtain incoming UK, USA and European numbers.
Telappliant also has a number of VoIPtalk white label opportunities for service providers wishing to deliver their own VoIP service.

Gold Sponsors

Signate Signate is the leading provider of design, installation, configuration, training and management services for open source VoIP systems.

Industry-standard high performance hardware and Asterisk open source software combine to create reliable, highly capable VoIP systems. The total cost of ownership of an open system is typically less than half the cost of a proprietary closed PBX system. And that's just the beginning. An Asterisk VoIP system integrates seamlessly into your IT infrastructure. Open source VoIP enables major productivity improvements for your business. With VoIP, you can integrate telephony with your other business systems.

Signate enables open source telephony with an experienced technical staff led by Paul Mahler, author of the book "VOIP Telephony with Asterisk", the first book on how to install and configure the leading open source PBX system. Signate services include installation, configuration and training. Signate will help you specify, configure, maintain and upgrade your Asterisk systems. We partner with system resellers for installation service, and support service.

Let Signate show you how you can reduce your costs and enable powerful new applications with open source telephony.

Silver Sponsors

Xorcom Ltd., a contributing member of the Asterisk community, develops software and hardware for the open source Asterisk PBX environment. Our goal is to make Asterisk a friendly, easy–to–install and easy–to–use system, enabling fast and simple installation and configuration of PBXs of all sizes. Our software and hardware solutions promote the efforts of PBX manufacturers and telephony VARs to streamline their development and distribution efforts, creating increased business opportunities over a wider customer base. Our first product, Xorcom Rapid™, is a free open-source distribution which is available for download via our Web site (www.xorcom.com). It allows you to save time (and money!) when installing Asterisk. Today, after thousands of installations, it can be safely said that Xorcom Rapid is a leading Asterisk distribution.
We focus our efforts on providing value-added resellers (VARs), competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) and traditional PBX manufacturers with a complete, high quality, flexible solution for setting up commercial Asterisk PBXs.

Organizers

IPsando LLC is a Swedish/US company that focuses on education and consulting around IP communications. Our knowledge of Asterisk - the leading Open Source PBX - is vat.

IPsando is the company behind the Astricon conferences, Astricon Training and the IAXphone - an Asterisk softphone for Windows.

The founders, Steven Sokol and Olle E. Johansson, are active contributors to the Asterisk.org Open Source project.