Sangoma’s Planned New Gateway Appliances

Known for their PC-based cards for enahancing IP voice and data, Sangoma is now adopting a cloud-based model to expand their offerings beyond their legacy business.

TMCnet’s Susan Campbell reports on Sangoma’s new direction unveiled at the recent ITExpo:

• Cloud adoption is driving Sangoma reinvention.
• In the next year Sangoma will be releasing media processing products, media gateway appliances, and more.
• Customer requested External VoIP Gateway Appliances are now on the horizon.

Sangoma Purchases VegaStream

Aimed at billing themselves as “Not Just a Board Company Anymore” Sangoma purchesed VegaStream, a VoIP gateways manufacturer, to become a more comprehensive VoIP hardware provider:

For years, Sangoma has provided the industry’s leading portfolio of TDM to IP cards for use inside servers, and we will continue to dominate that space. However, external gateways which provide much of the same functionality but reside outside the server as their own appliance, are becoming increasingly popular, and we want to offer our customers both options. External gateways expand our addressable market, can be easily integrated into Virtualized and Cloud based solutions, and so we hope to capture additional opportunities in this space as well as in our traditional segment.

The all cash purchase of VegaStream is just the start to more growth, organic growth or acquisitions, by Sangoma in the coming year to complete their strategy of offering the choice of internal cards or external gateways for IP networking solutions.