Grandstream Network’s SIP phones and ATAs are now officially interoperable with the Digium (News - Alert) Asterisk Business Edition Platform, the two companies announced today. More specifically, the Grandstream GXP 2020 and Multi-line SIP Enterprise Phone Series, as well as the HandyTone 50x Analog Telephone Adaptor Series, are now fully interoperable with Digium's Asterisk (News - Alert) Business Edition Platform, which delivers traditional and advanced telecommunications applications based on open source software.

This means SME customers can combine the excellent voice quality and an advanced feature sets delivered through Grandstream’s phones with the configurability, scalability and reliability of the Asterisk open source telephony platform.

Thanks to an automated secure provisioning process, Grandstream’s IP phones are incredibly easy to install and set up. The GXP 2020 Series offers dual 10/100 auto-sensing Ethernet ports with integrated PoE, individual SIP accounts, advanced XML applications and multi-language support in five languages.

Meanwhile the HT502 and HT503 ATAs now deliver more powerful features and significantly better performance than their predecessors, in addition to sporting a new sleek design. These models offer either 2 FXS ports or programmable FXO/FXS port combination, respectively, and feature an integrated high performance router, port status and message waiting LED. Best of all these lightweight and compact ATAs work with any phone or fax and support a broad range of codecs and T.38 fax.

"The combination of Asterisk Business Edition and Grandstream SIP products creates an awesome opportunity for the small to medium sized business to create a world-class advanced IP communications system,” said David Li, CEO of Grandstream Networks (News - Alert), in a press release. “Our official interoperability also means Asterisk system integrators can now deploy a high quality and cost-effective Voice-over-IP solution to a broad market.”

Digium made news on TMCnet last week when it announced that its VoIP telephony platform had won the InfoWorld "Best of Open Source Software" Bossie Award for 2007. The Bossie judges praised Digium for being the “most mature and scalable” IP PBX currently available. They also said that Asterisk “has the stuff for enterprise deployment and has proven itself in large-scale implementations.”

Grandstream also made news earlier this month on TMCnet when it announced that its telephony products -- including the GXP Multi-line SIP Enterprise Phone Series, the BudgeTone 200 and the Handytone ATA Series, are now fully interoperable with the Sylantro Synergy platform, made by Sylantro Systems (News - Alert).

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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for Customer Interaction Solutions magazine and Assignment Editor for TMCnet. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.