Ellen Ribbers
Tiptel
e.ribbers@tiptel.nl

Julie Webb
Digium
(256) 428-6203
jwebb@digium.com

Tiptel as official Digium distributor of the Benelux

VoIP telephony solutions for the corporate market

Huntsville, AL., June 15, 2009 -  Digium, Inc., the Asterisk(r) Company, has apointed Tiptel b.v. as an official distributor for Digium telephony cards in the Benelux.  Digium is the innovative force behind Asterisk(r), the world's most widely used open source telephony platform. Digium also develops the software, hardware and other components necessary to create a Unified Communications solution for the business market. This allows resellers, integrators and customers to compile their own telephony solutions.  Cor Heide, director of Tiptel Netherlands, is very pleased with the addition of Digium. "Digium is a professional party and is one of the world leaders in IP telephony. The focus will be on the whole range of Digium, which gives us the opportunity to provide a cost effective solution so customers can extend and support their existing solution.”
Steve Harvey, Digium’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales added, “Digium is excited to welcome Tiptel to our distribution program.  The Benelux has been an exciting place for open source Asterisk, and we see great potential in working with Tiptel to reach traditional players as well as being able to better service the customers we already have in region.”

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium offers Asterisk software free to the open source community and offers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company’s product line includes a wide range of hardware and software to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey VoIP systems or to design their own custom telephony solutions. More information is available at www.digium.com.

The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, Asterisk SCF, Switchvox, Asterisk Business Edition, AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Appliance and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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