Dawn Sullivan or John McElhenny
Schwartz Communications
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Julie Webb
Digium, Inc.
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jwebb@digium.com
Huntsville, AL — October 22, 2007 — Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced the grand opening of a new corporate headquarters to support the company's rapidly growing open source telephony business. A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new facility, located at 445 Jan Davis Drive NW, is scheduled for October 23. Digium, which has called Huntsville home since its founding in 1999, is the leading worldwide provider of open source VoIP solutions.
"Digium is experiencing exciting growth as more and more businesses realize the technical superiority, flexibility and low cost of open source VoIP solutions," said Danny Windham, president and CEO of Digium. "We are extremely thankful to the Huntsville community for contributing to our current and future success and look forward to even greater things as we occupy our new state-of-the-art facility."
The Digium ribbon-cutting ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. with Chamber of Commerce Officer Evan Quinlivan serving as master of ceremonies. The ceremony will include speeches from Huntsville Mayor Loretta Spencer, Digium Founder and CTO Mark Spencer, Digium President and CEO Danny Windham and Clay Smith, son of the late ADTRAN CEO and Digium board member, Mark C. Smith. Lunch and tours of the new facility will be offered immediately following the ceremony.
Digium's new facility will also feature Huntsville's Aroma coffee shop which will be located on the first floor and will serve freshly brewed coffee and pastries daily from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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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