Wow, nearly 3 months went by since we released our last update. As you can tell by its size (a whopping 120MB) it’s a big one. Aside from the usual bugfixes and small improvements, this update features support for Snom’s new wireless handset m3. While Sipcat is generally used with ISDN lines, our analog using customers can now do routing on a per port basis, instead of per card. We’ve also included a DynDns client for people installing Sipcat on a dynamic IP address and we’ve updated the Asterisk core.

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Asterisk, the driving force behind our very Sipcat, has been selected by InfoWorld as the best IP PBX in 2008. The InfoWorld Test Center tests, reviews and identifies the best and most innovative IT products every year. This award represents a major achievement for Open Source in general and Digium and Mark Spencer in particular

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The partnership announcements haven’t exactly come to a stop. After recent announcements by Dell and Lenovo, Lotus is lining up to announce its partnership with both Cisco Systems and Nortel Networks. The deals focus on the integration of the Lotus Sametime platform into both Cisco’s and Nortel’s unified communications platforms.

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Just yesterday, I reported on Dell and Fonality teaming up to offer VoIP solutions to small businesses. Today, I ran across an article announcing a partnership between PC manufacturer Lenovo and Avaya. While this partnership is not half as interesting as the Dell/Fonality deal, it looks like a sign for things to come in 2008.

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Wow, this is an impressive partnership announcement, Dell has picked Fonality as a partner to offer VoIP solutions to small businesses. It comes as a bit of surprise that Dell didn’t go for one of the traditional established vendors, but instead went for a company that offers Asterisk based solutions.

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