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Digium, Inc.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 21, 2006--Digium®, creator of Asterisk® and pioneer of open source telephony, today announced its new Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, Bill Miller. With over 25 years of executive management and product development experience, Miller will be heading Digium's product management and marketing teams.
Miller has extensive experience in the networking and telecommunications industry - having launched several successful companies and products. Prior to joining Digium, Miller led voice product management at 3Com. Previously, Bill founded WIM Technology Marketing, a consulting company focused on market acceleration and financing for innovative start-up companies and products in vertical markets. He also held executive positions as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Andes Networks, Vice President of Fujitsu's Strategic Planning and Alliance Management group, as well as their Broadband Services group, and Associate Vice President of ATM for General DataComm, Inc.
"We're thrilled to have Bill Miller join the Digium team," said Mark Spencer, president of Digium and creator of Asterisk. "Considering our rapid growth, Bill will bring great insights and direct our marketing and product efforts, playing a key role in helping Digium expand its reach domestically and internationally."
Bill holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering Technology from Northeastern University. Bill has been a keynote speaker and panelist at various industry events including Interop, NGN, and VoiceCon.
About Digium
Digium is the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first Open Source PBX and Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures.
Digium provides quality hardware and software products that enable telephony applications including legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, next generation gateways, media servers and application servers. Digium also offers a full range of professional services including consulting, technical support and custom software development services.
About Asterisk
Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc., has been contributed to from open source software engineers around the world. It supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, and VoIP packet protocols such as IAX, SIP and H.323. It supports U.S. and European standard signaling types used in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure.
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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