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Julie Webb
Digium, Inc.
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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. The ribbon cutting at the new facility, located at 445 Jan Davis Drive NW, is scheduled for Tuesday, October 23 and will be attended by several local dignitaries including Huntsville Mayor Loretta Spencer. Digium, which has called Huntsville home since its founding in 1999, is the leading worldwide provider of open source VoIP solutions.
Digium has seen meteoric growth in the last several years as the adoption and demand for open source telephony solution have increased. Founded by open source telephony pioneer Mark Spencer, the company is the driving force behind Asterisk, the most popular and successful open source communications platform. In early 2007, Digium announced a new executive management team led by Danny Windham, former president of ADTRAN, to drive a bold new vision for the future of the company.
This vision included several strategic initiatives including naming Mark Spencer CTO and head of product innovation; acquiring Switchvox, a leading provider of IP PBX phone systems for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and acquiring Sokol and Associates, the leader in Asterisk training and operator of AstriCon, the leading Asterisk User Conference. Digium also recently signed a major partnership with 3Com to provide small businesses with a reliable, easy-to-deploy voice solution based on open standards.
"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 both the Huntsville and Asterisk communities 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."
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.
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