From Internetnews.com

"Digium, the prime corporate mover behind Asterisk, is poised to push the popular, open source PBX into the carrier space, thanks to a new partnership with UK-based carrier switch vendor Integrics.

The deal may mark a coup for Digium, Asterisk's commercial sponsors, which could see Integrics deploying its Enswitch product using Asterisk and jointly targeting carrier-class deployments.

As a result, the new move could be the first step in a larger effort by Digium to tackle the market for carrier PBX and unified communications equipment, which is dominated by proprietary vendors.

"Digium has many carrier-class partners from different types of partnerships," Bill Miller, the company's vice president of product management and marketing, told InternetNews.com. "Some are customers of Digium hardware and software, some are VoIP service providers with revenue share arrangements, some resell our appliances, but this is the first Asterisk-based partner of this type." "