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Digium Announces Call for Entries for Inaugural "Digium Innovation" Awards

Innovation Awards will honor developers, customers and partners using Asterisk Software in break-through business deployments

Huntsville, AL — August 27, 2007 — Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced a call for entries for the inaugural "Digium Innovation" Awards, designed to recognize developers, customers and partners for outstanding achievements that are improving business processes, overcoming technology challenges and enhancing the company's bottom line. Innovation Award entries are currently being accepted and can be accessed through an online form at www.digium.com. Submissions will be accepted until October 1, 2007.

The Digium Innovation Awards will be awarded during a special ceremony at Digium Asterisk World Boston (October 30-31) and are open to Asterisk users around the world. Winners will be announced in 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
Benefits of being named an Innovation Award winner include:
  • Presentation of award with a profile of your company in the Conference General session
  • Congratulatory press release from Digium, Inc.
  • Listing on the Digium website
"We are continuously impressed with the ways in which today’s business technologists are using Digium open source solutions to improve processes, reduce costs and cost effectively create applications to fit unique business needs," said Digium Founder and CTO Mark Spencer. "The Digium Innovation Awards will shine a spotlight on the people who put Asterisk into action and the resulting open source deployments that are redefining the VoIP industry."

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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