3Com Evaluating Askerisk Strategy
The VAR Guy stumbled onto a mystery today. During a chat with a 3Com manager, he asked if the company had any plans to support Asterisk—the open source IP telephony server.
The manager politely danced around the question, then indicated that 3Com planned to address Asterisk without necessarily competing with the open source system. Sounds like 3Com is piecing together a strategy to embrace Asterisk. Could there be a partnership or acquisition around the corner?
The VAR Guy will stop speculating and tell you what he knows for sure: 3Com has taken a look at Asterisk and knows the company has to address the fast-growing offering. Perhaps there’s more news to be found at next week’s VoiceCon conference in Orlando.
Supporting Asterisk would propel 3Com’s open platform strategy forward. The networking company in January announced an aggressive strategy to ensure third-party developers could add value to 3Com’s systems. It’s an intriguing alternative to Cisco’s more traditional closed operating system approach with IOS.
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