Intel and Digium Jointly Develop Driver

this is great news for digium who've been working passionately on their open source pbx software for the past few years. mark spencer and the entire asterisk community have created a wonderful product and it's nice to see that industry leaders have finally acknowledged this. the driver for intel's dialogic cards will only be available in asterisk business edition.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 2005--Digium Inc., the creator of Asterisk and pioneer of open source telephony, today announced that it will incorporate support for Intel NetStructure(R) and Intel(R) Dialogic(R) products in Digium's Asterisk Business Edition software platform. Intel and Digium will jointly develop a channel driver that will enable Asterisk Business Edition on Intel(R) modular hardware and software building blocks. As a result, Asterisk Business Edition will support one of the most established telephony card vendors and bring businesses more advanced features and functionality when they use an Asterisk-based telephony system with Intel components.