How Ironic: Microsoft Lync Takes Multi-Vendor Hardware Approach While #OpenSource #Digium Shifts to Building Own Handsets #Asterisk

Tom Keating of TMCNet reports out of ITExpo that Digium will produce its own line of deskphones.

This strikes me as interesting/ironic that the Microsoft Lync ecosystem is appearing more diverse than the epitome of opensource PBX vendors: Digium.

Certified Lync Phone Edition

• Poycom CX
• Aastra
• HP IP Phone

Lync Qualified Devices – Deskphones

• snom 300
• snom 821

Gateway/Survivable Branch Vendors

• AudioCodes
• Dialogic
• Ferrari Electronics AG
• NET
• HP

Mobility Vendors (not sure if these are certified)

• Altigen MaxMobile
• AudioCodes Mobility Plus
• Shoretel Mobility Router

And many more vendors in the video and Optimized for Lync program.Well, you can take a look at the devices list yourself:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/lync/gg278164

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