[*] Notes from Sangoma & Aastra

[John Lange]

I was in a webinar today put on by Sangoma and Aastra and thought I'd
pass on a few interesting tidbits.

First Aastra and Sangoma are both Candian companies based in Ontario and
appear to have a close relationship. Their products nicely compliment
each other without competing so it makes sense for them to cooperate.

- Sangoma intends to write a replacement for Zaptel to increase the
stability of Asterisk. (expected sometime in 2007)

- Sangoma has released software echo cancel for up to 6 channels using
the same Ocastic algorithm as on the hardware chip version. However,m
each software echo cancel consumes approximately 55Mhz of CPU so it
still makes sense to use the DSP based echo cancel in all but the
lightest loads.

- Sangoma has 22 employees (double what they had 1 year ago).

- Sangoma derives 90% of its revenue from OpenSource driven revenue
sources (Asterisk etc.)

- Sangoma hardware supports (or is supported by) a number of OpenSource
projects such as; Asterisk, OpenPBX (now Codeweaver), YATE, Bayonne,
FreeSwitch.

- Octasic is a Canadian company.

John