Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, and Yealink, a professional IP voice and video phone designer and manufacturer for broadband networks, today announced an interoperability partnership and certification of the Yealink SIP-T2x series IP phones.

Yealink SIP-T2x series are high performance and affordable SIP telephones that help businesses leverage the increasing benefits of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone systems. Yealink SIP phones provide high quality audio, a broad range of voice codecs, security protection for privacy, and rich telephony features. Yealink enterprise HD IP phones now are compliance-tested by Digium for interoperability with Asterisk.

Digium created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software and the cost-effective alternative to proprietary communication software. Digium offers Asterisk free to the open source community and offers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company’s product line includes a wide range of hardware and software to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey VoIP phone systems or to design their own custom telephony solutions.

“The combination of Digium and Yealink enterprise HD IP phones gives businesses a powerful and yet cost-effective choice in the VoIP solution market,” commented David Chen, the CEO of Yealink Network. “We believe we are providing the best price-performance benchmark in the industry. The Digium and Yealink combination offers a very compelling value to SMBs.”

“The Digium and Yealink interoperability partnership extends the power and cost-saving benefits of Asterisk to new users globally,” said Digium’s Mark Amick, director of product management. “Yealink’s commitment to SIP telephony excellence creates exciting new opportunities for their customers and the Asterisk community.”

About Yealink Network Technology

Yealink Network Technology Ltd. is a professional designer and manufacturer of innovative, affordable, and high quality IP voice and video products for the world-wide broadband telephony market. The company's products such as SIP-T2x series enterprise HD IP Phones, equipped with the TI chipset and TI Voice Engine, offer high definition voice, are fully compatible with the SIP industry standard, field proven with large and rapidly growing deployed base, and have broad interoperability with the major IP-PBX, IMS, NGN, soft-switch and other 3rd party SIP products on the market today.

For more information, please visit http://www.yealink.com

About Digium

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium offers Asterisk software free to the open source community and offers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company’s product line includes a wide range of hardware and software to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey VoIP systems or to design their own custom telephony solutions. More information is available at http://www.digium.com.

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