Ann Schaner
Interlink
727.524.8663
aschaner@interlinkweb.com
Julie Webb
Digium, Inc.
256.428.6203
jwebb@digium.com
Huntsville, AL — November 1, 2007 — Digium® Inc., the Asterisk company, today announced their newest Distribution Partner in North America, Interlink Communication Systems.
The new distribution partnership puts Interlink in a strong position to deliver Digium|Asterisk business-class telephony platforms to its base of Value Added Resellers, Network Service Providers and System Integrators throughout North America, that provide internetworking solutions to this market today.
"The VoIP juggernaut continues to move from the early large enterprise adopters into small to mid-size business (SMB) penetration due in large part to the low-cost, feature rich solutions like those provided by Digium," said Scott Eudy, Vice President Business Development at Interlink. "The Wall Street Journal published an article back in August titled "Small Firms Sign Up for Internet Calling," - there has been a clear shift in how and where VoIP technology is being fully leveraged, and the Digium|Asterisk solution equips our partners to deliver a robust, cost-effective voice solution to their customers."
That same article shows a Dell'Oro Group chart estimating VoIP small business line growth to increase by over 35 million in the next three years. The Digium VoIP solutions include the Asterisk Appliance™ with the Asterisk Business Edition™ software and the AsteriskGUI™ -- all aimed at delivering on the promise of cost-effective, highly reliable, and easily deployed VoIP for the SMB.
"We developed and recently introduced the new Asterisk Appliance (AA50) IP-PBX for the SMB and remote branch offices of larger organizations, including the AsteriskGUI to make the configuration, management, and fine tuning very user friendly," said Bill Miller, Vice President of Product Marketing and Marketing. "Digium is pleased to welcome Interlink to our distribution channel as we expand our presence into the small business market."
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 calls will be made using Asterisk. More information is available at www.digium.com.
About Interlink Communication Systems
Interlink Communication Systems, founded in 1990, is an internetworking-focused specialty distribution company representing manufacturers to an international network of Value Added Resellers, System Integrators and Network Service Providers. Interlinks areas of expertise include wire-line, fiber optics and wireless Local Area and Wide Area Networking (LAN/WAN), IP telephony, and access aggregation and optimization. Interlink has been ranked among the Tampa Bay Technology Fast 50, INC. 500, and more recently, received mention on the VAR Business 2006 List of Distributors to Watch. Visit Interlink at www.interlinkweb.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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