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Digium Announces Call for Entries for Second Annual Digium Innovation Awards

Awards honor developers, customers and partners using Asterisk to change the VoIP technology and business landscape

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Digium|Asterisk World) — March 18, 2008 — Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced the official call for entries for the second annual Digium Innovation Awards, designed to recognize Asterisk developers, customers and partners for outstanding achievements that are improving business processes, overcoming technology challenges and delivering record return on investment.

Digium Innovation Award submissions are being accepted for the following categories:

• Pioneer Award — most innovative Asterisk implementation;
• Big Biz Asterisk Award — largest Asterisk enterprise-class installation;
• ROI Award — best measurable ROI from implementing Asterisk;
• Inside Out Award — best use of Asterisk in a business outside of telecommunications.

Winners from each category will be announced September 22-25 at AstriCon 2008, www.astricon.net, in Glendale, Ariz.

The benefits of being named a Digium Innovation Award winner include:

• Presentation of award with a profile of your company during the Digium|Asterisk World 2008 conference general session;
• Congratulatory press release from Digium, Inc.;
• Listing on the Digium Web site;
• Invitation to present at Digium|Asterisk World Fall.

To submit an entry and view last year's winners, please visit www.digium.com. Nominations will be accepted until August 1, 2008.

"We were overwhelmed by the great response we received for the inaugural Digium Innovation Awards and look forward to seeing the new and exciting ways individuals and businesses are using Asterisk this year," said Digium Founder and CTO Mark Spencer. "In 2007 alone members of the community downloaded Asterisk more than one million times. As everyone at Digium and in the Asterisk community knows, that was just the beginning."

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 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 to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey solutions or to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems. 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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