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Digium Asterisk World Set to Make Big Debut at Fall VON

New Conference Dedicated to Advancing Open Source IP Communications for Business; Asterisk Creator Mark Spencer to Keynote

Huntsville, AL — October 23, 2007 — Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced new details for Digium|Asterisk World, a conference solely dedicated to advancing open source IP telephony communications in business environments. This year marks the debut of Digium|Asterisk World, scheduled for October 30-31 in Boston, MA. Registration for the event is open at www.digiumasteriskworld.com.

The Digium|Asterisk World conference will be co-located with Fall VON, the longest running and most well respected IP communications event in the industry. Attendees will have access to both shows and have the opportunity to see demonstrations of the latest open source IP communications technology, including Digium's new Asterisk Appliance and the recently acquired Switchvox advanced web services based GUI.

Asterisk creator and Digium CTO Mark Spencer will present the Industry Perspective keynote address, "The Road Ahead is Open" which will include new and exciting evidence of Asterisk's growing business presence around the world.

Digium|Asterisk World attendees will also hear real-world case studies from businesses leveraging open source telephony in new and innovative ways as well as tutorials from Digium partners, customers and developers.

Topics include:

• How to incorporate speech recognition with open source VoIP
• Leveraging the new Digium - 3Com Partnership; What it means for you
• Enterprise Implementations of Asterisk
• Business Class SIP Trunking
• Echo Cancellation in Asterisk Systems
• How to Access, Verify and Monitor open source VoIP
• Asterisk and Polycom; Perfect Together
• Asterisk Community Update; How to get started

The Conference will also feature new announcements and demonstrations from Digium, including a ceremony honoring the winners of the inaugural Digium Innovation Awards as well as the unveiling of a new Partner Program and interactive website to meet the increasing demand for Digium business solutions.

Digium will also present new details of its post-acquisition Switchvox integration strategy and provide demonstrations of the award-winning Switchvox solution for small businesses. Attendees will be among the first to see the new Digium AEX800, the industry's first eight port PCI-Express based telephony card.

"We are extremely excited for Digium|Asterisk World and the opportunity to shine a spotlight on the incredible traction open source IP is having in today's business world," said Danny Windham, Digium president and CEO. "Digium|Asterisk World is the first conference completely focused on Asterisk for business and will provide attendees with new insights and practical advice so they can implement Asterisk in their businesses, quickly and affordably."

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, more than 12 billion new minutes of phone calls will be made using Asterisk. 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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