Re: [sipx-users] Pingtel is now a part of Nortel
Great news!
Does this mean we will be getting an open source call manager soon?
Does the SCS500 even have a call manager? If so, would it be possible
to buy the call manager separately as a module to SipX. This has been a
topic of much debate around the office.
Congrats, and best of luck to everyone at Pingtel/Nortel.
-Jim
Scott Lawrence wrote:
Effective last Monday (11 Aug), the assets of the former
Pingtel have been purchased by Nortel Networks Corporation [1].
As most members of our community will have noticed, Nortel has
been a major supporter of the sipXecs project for over a year
now, with many Nortel employees making important contributions.
The Nortel SCS 500 <http://www.nortel.com/scs500> is based on
sipXecs.
I'm happy to say that the entire Pingtel team has moved to
Nortel, and that our commitment to the sipXecs open source
project is unchanged. The project goes on as it has been;
indeed, with the greater resources of Nortel behind it, we
expect to be able to expand our scope considerably.
This will not affect any of the project infrastructure - all
the lists and other resources remain the same. There will be
some brief outages in some services when we move some of the
servers to a Nortel facility, but these should not last more
than a few days. You'll see the pingtel.com email addresses
change to nortel.com addresses.
Having this kind of commitment from an industry leader in
telecom is a great endorsement of all that the sipXecs
community has achieved. To all of you who have contributed
your ideas, your enthusiasm, and your code: thank you again,
and I hope you'll join me in celebrating this new milestone.
[1]
http://www2.nortel.com/go/news_detail.jsp?cat_id=-8055&locale=en-US&oid=100244956
