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Working with sipXecs and would like to get on this list?  Email us at info@sipfoundry.org

KGB   eZuce was founded by the founders of SIPfoundry to support the community and offer commercial support for sipXecs.
KGB   KGB sponsors the openACD project, a joint effort to develop a scalable and fully featured ACD call center solution.
openfire   sipXecs integrates the OpenfireXMPP server and the two communities collaborate.
FreeSWITCH   sipXecs integrates FreeSWITCH as its media server and collaborates with the FreeSWITCH community.
IANT   IANT, associated with the OstfaliaTechnical University, is our development and support partner in Germany.

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Welcome to SIPfoundry, the leading open source UC Community Welcome to SIPfoundry, the leading open source UC Community

SIPfoundry is the home of the sipXecs open source unified communications and collaboration project. If you are looking to replace your aging (IP) PBX with an all software modern communications solution that scales to mid-size and large enterprise and can be deployed in the cloud, look no further.  A fast growing list of large enterprise use our solution as an alternative to expensive systems from vendors such as Avaya, Cisco, and Microsoft.  If you are an organization with many hundred or even thousands of branch offices distributed geographically, we can help centralize your communcations infrastrucutre into a data center with geographic redundancy, seamless failover, and a robust and easy to manage system that scales to your needs.

We are a community of experts dedicated to the development of SIP and XMPP based communications solutions. Founded in 2004 as an independent 501(3)c not-for-profit corporation based in Massachusetts, SIPfoundry is governed by an independent board of directors. SIPfoundry is open an invites all interested parties to cooperate and collaborate.  While the sipXecs project is the largest active project at SIPfoundry, we are open to making available our infrastructure to other interested projects. sipXes is developed by eZuce and a commercial enterprise edition of the sipXecs solution is available from eZuce with full support, software maintenance, training, indemnification, and other services.

Upcoming Events Upcoming Events
SIPfoundry 2012 Steering Committee SIPfoundry 2012 Steering Committee

Congratulations to our SIPfoundry 2012 Steering Committee members for being nominated by their peers and colleagues within the SIPfoundry user community. On behalf of the Steering Committee we encourage you to get involved in the planning for next year's event and share your ideas and suggestions on how together we can make it a successful conference for all. Please feel free to contact the Steering Committee members directly or you can send a request to info@sipfoundry.org for more details.

Todd Hodgen founded Misiu Systems LLC in 2002. Originally started as a product development firm, Mr. Hodgen holds patents for three wireless products developed by Misiu Systems. In recent years, the company has been reshaped to take advantage of his career spanning 35 year in the telecommunications services industry. He has previously held positions and gained experience in most aspects of the industry, including installation, service and support, sales, engineering, product development, project management, management as well as twice owning successful companies that deployed telecommunications products and services. In Sales and Engineering, Mr. Hodgen had responsibility for selling and engineering voice and data products to enterprise accounts, and vertical sales to Government, Healthcare, Wireless and EDU. His ability to think "outside the box" has benefitted his customers with cost effective, yet first class advanced communications systems to improve employee productivity and the customers bottom line. Currently, as President of Misiu Systems LLC, he is actively participating in the development and sales of networking and communications strategies to SMB, GOV and EDU with the use of open source voice and data platforms for the company's customers. Utilizing years of experience, he enjoys working on integration of disparate network products into advanced unified messaging delivery systems. Originally from Reno, Nevada, he is a 1977 graduate of Wyoming Technical College. He and his wife Margaret have been married for 14 years. He is the proud father of three grown sons. Contact: t.hodgen@misiusystems.com / www.MisiuSystems.com

 

Recruited by a national carrier from his position at a multi-state financial services firm concentrating in IBM mainframe and communications, Tony worked as a data specialist for one of the largest US facilities based carriers (LDDS, now MCI). After deciding to focus on microcomputing technology, he worked for a Virginia based consulting and services firm, which he helped to grow before they were purchased by a national firm. After establishing and selling a regional CLEC in Virginia, Tony has focused on data services. His growing consulting practice, myITdepartment, helps commercial businesses, including CLEC's and multiregional firms, to properly identify emerging technologies such as VoIP and SaaS so they can more easily adapt to changing business trends. These emerging trends include cloud-controlled security appliances and network switching platforms. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Lisa and their three daughters, and enjoys saltwater fishing, especially on the Northern Neck of the Chesapeake Bay with friends and family as often as he can. myITdepartment has assisted firms on 5 continents with installing and maintaining sipXecs and has been active within sipfoundry since the "Pingtel" era. Contact tgraziano@myitdepartment.net / www.myitdepartment.net

 

Kyle Haefner grew up in Laramie, Wyoming. In 2002 he completed his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and promptly joined the Peace Corp and started volunteering as an IT advisor for the Ministry of Education in Kingston, Jamaica. Upon returning home in 2004 he started a computer science program and received his master's degree in 2009, focusing his thesis research on applying a trust model to the SIP protocol designed to prevent Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT). For the last seven years he has been working on open source telephony projects at Colorado State University. When not working, Kyle enjoys everything the Fort Collins area has to offer;hiking, biking, snow boarding and spending time with his two sons. Contact: kyle.haefner@colostate.edu / www.colostate.edu

 

Matt White is a Senior Partner with Summit Technology. A veteran in Enterprise IT industry, he has held key technical consulting roles with various MNCs in the past 16 years. Prior to joining Summit, he was with a global solutions partner, serving as Senior Global Solutions Architect. With his wide background, Matt is able to draw upon his experiences from software development, systems integration to ICT infrastructure management to provide an out-of-the box holistic view of the latest trends in ICT infrastructure virtualization and VOIP. Contact: mwhite@thesummit-grp.com/ www.thesummit-grp.com

SIPfoundry Steering Committee Meetings SIPfoundry Steering Committee Meetings

Join the SIPfoundry Steering Committee meetings as we meet on the third Thursday of each month to discuss our planning efforts for the 2013 sipX CoLab Users Conference along with topics of interest submitted by our community members. Now is the time to get involved and be a part of the industry's leading open source community to share your ideas, suggestions, and recommendations for building our community through ongoing collaboration and contributions to the sipXecs project.

Oour Next Meeting: Thursday June 21, 2013 @ 1:00PM EDT

Join link: http://conference.colostate.edu/bigbluebutton/joinMeeting.jsp?mID=464
Password: sipx
Voice Bridge: 970-491-4400 ext. 70001


 

Recent Blogs Recent Blogs
  User groups are one of the best ways to keep a community going around an open source project. They provide a great way to connect with others, work on the project, get help with installations, and network with like-minded professionals. With that in mind, we feel that the sipXecs community has reached a level of longevity and strength where we are ready to start having user group meetups that will attract the best and brightest of the community to share ideas, hack code, and grab a Read More About Announcing SIPfoundry User Groups -In-Person Learning and Networking with Other sipXecs Users »
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  If you are looking at integrating telecom into IT at your company, then the following is for you.  For decades companies procured and maintained separate systems, typically called a PBX, to provide reliable dialtone to an organization.  As telecom and IT organizations and their budgets got merged, CIOs not only want to reduce cost, but standardize operations and datacenter requirements on common best practices.  With legacy PBX systems that is not possible, so that a new Read More About Eight steps to a successful transition into the post-PBX era »
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  At CoLab, our first annual users conference held in Ft Collins CO early March, a  lot of IT people met to discuss their transition to a software based solution.  While many of our customers and partners coming to CoLab feel as pioneers and early adopters of a powerful new trend, it became obvious quite quickly that they are not alone.  With representatives from companies from four continents the exchange of information was substantial and a pleasure to participate Read More About Life in the post-PBX era »
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Join us to receive the latest SIPfoundry Updates next quarter Wed, May 16, 2012 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT Register https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/649182174 Read More About SIPfoundry Q2 2012 Webinar »
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Yesterday's SIPFoundry sipXCoLab was an exciting event with some great minds meeting at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Joining us yesterday was Wolfgang Kuhnel from T-Systems, Germany. Wolfgang discusses the conference and the sipXecs solution, it's up to date features the and the conference itself. Read More About sipXCoLab 2012: Interview with T-Systems »
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