Julie Webb
Digium
(256) 428-6203
jwebb@digium.com
Maureen Park
Everything Channel
(516) 562-5942
maureen.park@ec.ubm.com
Huntsville, Ala.-November 19, 2009-Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced that it was named a 2009 Tech Innovator by Everything Channel's CRN in the Networking Voice/Data VoIP category. Everything Channel's Tech Innovator award celebrates technology vendors that have introduced new solutions that drive advances throughout the technology channel.
Digium's award-winning Switchvox family of IP PBX systems for small and medium businesses (SMBs) provides affordable unified communications that integrates with popular web applications such as Google maps and Salesforce, as well as providing chat, fax, video and conferencing capabilities. Digium's product lines include a wide range of hardware and software to enable resellers and businesses to implement turnkey business phone system solutions or to design their own Voice over IP (VoIP) systems at a fraction of the cost of proprietary PBX systems.
"Digium is truly honored to be recognized as a 2009 Tech Innovator by Everything Channel for our continued commitment to providing businesses with cutting-edge telephony solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional PBXs," said Steve Harvey, Digium's vice president of worldwide sales. "We are pleased to share this award with our reseller partners who are moving the IP Telephony market forward with our unified communications solutions."
"Innovation has been a critical, driving force behind growth and expansion of the IT industry since its inception and that innovation continues to this day. As a result of the steady, hard and often unheralded work in the R&D labs throughout the industry, technology, cultural and business leadership happens every day," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel. "Congratulations to this year's innovators. We applaud you on your success."
The Tech Innovators were nominated by their individual companies and final selections were made by the editors of CRN. In order to participate, products were required to have been introduced (as a new product or significant upgrade) after August 1, 2008 and all products were required to be shipping in volume by July 30, 2009. Products were also required to be sold via commercial or retail channels.
Winners will be announced in the December 14 issue of CRN. To learn more about becoming a Digium Authorized Reseller, go to www.digium.com/ucpartner.
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 and software to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey VoIP systems or to design their own custom telephony solutions. 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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