Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Damaka seek to unseat Skype

I found this application and the company while looking up Skype alternatives. Damaka claims that it's SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) based Personal Softswitch™ application empowers the end user with multimedia communication and collaboration capabilities and that Damaka is the first company in the world to offer Softswitch technology to the end users.
According to the website, Using Damaka software, users can make phone & video calls to other Damaka users with PSTN like sound quality. Damaka offers real-time presence, IM and pc-to-pc calling, secure video with more functionality planned for roll out in the future versions of the application.

I am in the process of testing the software and features. Following is a Press release from Damaka.

RICHARDSON, Texas – damaka®, an innovative communications and collaboration software company, announces its latest P2P Personal Softswitch TM application release which would enable users to connect to SIP networks globally. As part of damaka's effort to establish global connectivity to disparate networks and services, users will be able to connect to SIP networks by making simple configuration settings on the application. "We strongly believe that communications and collaborations should be open and seamless, while maintaining high level of security, to all users across different network boundaries", states Satish Gundabathula, CTO of damaka.

This release provides both novice and advanced users to setup SIP connectivity by selecting either simple or advanced configuration options. Enterprises worldwide can now use damaka to connect into their existing SIP infrastructure seamlessly and benefit from the feature rich environment provided by the damaka Personal Softswitch TM application. "damaka just works" with any SIP infrastructure like Cisco ® CallManager ®, Microsoft ® LCS ® and other SIP IP-PBX's.

As part of its endeavor, damaka will continue to Interop with more and more SIP networks in the marketplace to create seamless interconnectivity. IMS connectivity is also part of this endeavor. IMS service providers can now avail of damaka software as it is SIP and IMS compliant to deliver their features.

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