NEWBURYPORT, MA–(Marketwire – September 29, 2010) – Today SIPfoundry launches its EDU initiative, a comprehensive program designed to bring lower cost and modern communications to universities, colleges and school districts. As a proven replacement for legacy IP-PBX systems and as an open alternative to an all Microsoft infrastructure, the SIPfoundry sipXecs solution brings a robust all software solution with a sophisticated user experience to the higher education community.
Colorado State University (CSU) and Cedarville University are the first full members in this joint effort to transition from costly, limiting, legacy IP-PBXs and build 21st century communications that provide a rich, connected experience for faculty, staff, students and alumni. As investing members, CSU and Cedarville represent the higher education community to drive the future direction and define the requirements for an open, interoperable communication solution.
- The SIPfoundry EDU program is designed to inspire innovation for the open source UC solution of the future based upon the sipXecs open source code, the largest and most comprehensive open source effort to build unified communications using the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).
- SIPfoundry embraces a ‘For EDU – By EDU’ approach that ensures higher education institutions save significant money and it gives them direct influence over the future direction and roadmap of the open source development.
- The SIPfoundry website has been updated to make it easy for members to collaborate, share best practices and leverage open source applications.
- In addition to investing in SIPfoundry, Patrick Burns, VP for Information Technology and Dean of Libraries at CSU has joined the SIPfoundry governing board of directors. You Tube: Video Testimonial from Patrick Burns at Colorado State University
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