John McElhenny
Schwartz Communications
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Julie Webb
Digium, Inc.
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Todd Barrish
Dukas Public Relations
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CHICAGO (NXTcomm Booth #1153) — June 19, 2007 — Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® company, and Bandwidth.com®, the leading nationwide provider of complete business communications solutions, today announced a partnership. Bandwidth.com, a long-standing Digium customer, has become a Digium Premier Certified Service Provider. The partnership enables the companies to closely collaborate on new telecommunications services and platforms for business customers.
Digium created, maintains, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony communications software. The company also offers a full range of hardware that allows customers to readily integrate Asterisk-based systems into existing and new converged networks. Bandwidth.com has long used Digium Asterisk software and the company's hardware to provide telephony services to business customers on the Bandwidth.com network. During 2007, the company will deliver more than 1.2 billion voice minutes from over 48,000 endpoints using Asterisk.
"We've enjoyed a strong relationship with Digium for three years, routinely deliver over 100 million voice minutes a month using Asterisk at the edge of our network, and are on pace to double that number later this year," said David Morken, president and chairman of Bandwidth.com. "As the founder of Asterisk, Digium is vital to our operations and we felt now was the right time to formalize a partnership and put in place a framework for closer collaboration. We continue to align ourselves with the best hardware and software providers in the business to ensure our customers receive the most robust and complete offering available."
In addition to joining the Digium Certified Service Provider Program, Bandwidth.com will use Digium hardware to enable services for small and mid-sized business customers. Digium will include Bandwidth.com as a voice over IP (VoIP) service provider option presented in the AsteriskGUI™ graphical user interface included in the AsteriskNOW™ software appliance, the hardware-based Asterisk Appliance™ and Asterisk Business Edition™. Both companies have also agreed to cooperate in the development of new advanced services and platforms for the Bandwidth.com network.
Danny Windham, CEO of Digium, commented: "Bandwidth.com has become one of the fastest growing businesses in the country because it offers the mix of telecommunications services and outstanding customer support so many companies are looking for today. Digium is pleased to have helped fuel that growth with the Asterisk platform and hardware and looks forward to expanding our relationship with Bandwidth.com as we collaborate on new services."
About Bandwidth.com
Founded in 1999, Bandwidth is a complete nationwide communications provider offering businesses advanced Internet, VoIP, network and wireless services. As a single source provider for businesses telecom needs, Bandwidth provides its customers with unparalleled selection, savings and service. The company's unique methodology, experienced team and dedicated customer service, ensures accountability and service superior to that of traditional Internet and VoIP providers. Bandwidth.com has been recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies, ranking 16th in the 2006 Inc 500 list. In addition the Triangle Business Journal has recognized the company as of the Best Places to work in North Carolina's Research Triangle. Additional information can be found at www.bandwidth.com.
About Asterisk
Code for Asterisk®, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium®, Inc., has been contributed from open source software engineers around the world. Currently boasting over two million users, Asterisk supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, featuring VoIP packet protocols such as SIP and IAX among others. 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.
About Digium
Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® company, is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform. Digium provides hardware and software products, including AsteriskNOW™, the complete open source software appliance; Asterisk Business Edition™, the professional-grade version of Asterisk; and Asterisk Appliance™ hardware-based telephony solution, to enterprises and telecommunications providers worldwide. Digium also offers a full range of professional services, including consulting, technical support and custom software development.
Used in combination with Digium's telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures. Digium's offerings include VoIP, conferencing, voicemail, legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, media servers and gateways, and application servers and gateways. Additional information can be found 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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