Dawn Sullivan
Schwartz Communications
781.684.0770
digium@schwartz-pr.com
Julie Webb
Digium, Inc.
256.428.6203
jwebb@digium.com
Huntsville, AL — September 13, 2007 — Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced added bonuses for all Astricon 2007 attendees, including free Asterisk product upgrades that further enhance the quality and value of Digium's industry leading Asterisk solution. All attendees who visit the Digium booth at Astricon will receive nearly $80 worth of Digium products and be among the first to own new offerings for echo cancellation and improved Asterisk bandwidth utilization.
The annual Astricon event, scheduled for September 24-28 2007 at the Carefree Resort & Villas in Carefree, Arizona, is dedicated to expanding the awareness and knowledge of Asterisk and will include seminars for both users and developers; a series of tutorials presented by experts from around the globe; keynotes and industry perspectives covering the technical, business and social aspects of Asterisk; and panel discussions surrounding the ongoing growth of open source telephony. The event will also include a job fair for those interested in exploring a career working with the popular Asterisk PBX and telephony platform. To register for the event, visit www.astricon.net.
"We are excited to be the lead corporate sponsor of this wildly energetic Asterisk user event and give attendees a first look at the technology advances Digium and the ecosystem are bringing to market," said Mark Spencer, Digium CTO and creator of Asterisk. "Astricon is the perfect venue for Asterisk enthusiasts and professionals to share ideas and build upon a technology platform that is changing the way we communicate in the enterprise, community, classroom and home. The power and potential of Asterisk truly is limitless."
About Digium
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 grown to become the open source alternative to the traditional communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less than proprietary voice communication platforms. Digium makes Asterisk available to the open source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and uses business-class Asterisk to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company's product line also includes a wide range of hardware to enable resellers and customers to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems. This year alone, Asterisk will support over 12 billion minutes of calls. Additional 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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