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I’d like to say we’re catching Sangoma Technologies Corporation at the top of their game right now, but the company keeps upping the ante.

 

We recently reported that Sangoma, a Canada-based company that provides PC-based hardware and software for open source telephony, showed a whopping 66 percent quarterly net income growth.

 

I remarked at the time that Sangoma’s money-making ability – the quarterly growth reflected record sales of $3.2 million – demonstrated the potential of companies in the open source space.

 

Then the company announced last month it had acquired Paraxip Technologies, a move that Sangoma Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer David Mandelstam told me ranks as Sangoma’s greatest achievement in 2008. TMC Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Tom Keating says the move will give the company a broader communications play than just offering telephony boards for Asterisk (News - Alert)-based solutions.

 

The company already ranks its analog telephony cards among its flagship products. Officials at Sangoma say they’ve raised the bar in TDM voice communications with Telco-grade hardware echo canceller DSPs, available on all voice cards.

 

More recently, Sangoma announced the launch of a new Developer Network for the open source community, which TMC’s Greg Galitzine says will give VoIP developers the opportunity to interact with the people and companies in need of their services.

 

Those are few of the reasons why we never pass up a chance to speak to the Mandelstam, who founded Sangoma 24 years ago, following a stint as head of an engineering company. Widely recognized as a pioneering developer of connectivity software and hardware for IP telephony, wide area network and the Internet, Mandelstam is speaking during the upcoming ITEXPO, which will be held in Los Angeles Sept. 16 to 18.

 

 

DM: Probably the advent of the I-Phone.

 

 

DM: Open Source is the origin and lifeblood of our business since Linux Version 1.3, when we first contributed drivers to the kernel.

 

 

DM: I think it is a great initiative, because there is such an easy development platform. But because it is open, I suspect that the phone people will not be so keen on it.

 

 

DM: Yes, it will. The next trick is Skype (News - Alert) or its equivalent on an I-phone

 

 

DM: Apple.

 

 

DM: It has certainly changed Sangoma’s market. It is a very large opportunity for us.

 

 

DM: It is very positive for the concept of Voice as a Software Service, which is what the Open Source projects are all about.

 

 

DM: If it ever comes. There has been a distinct movement toward having to pay for all hotspots.

 

 

DM: These are both enabling technologies.

 

 

DM: I am talking about using Open Source and non-Open Source modules in the same project on a best-of-breed arrangement.