Dawn Sullivan
Schwartz Communications
781.684.0770
digium@schwartz-pr.com
Julie Webb
Digium, Inc.
256.428.6203
jwebb@digium.com
VOICECON SPRING 2007, Orlando, Fla. — March 6, 2007 — Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® company, today announced continued strong global demand for its Asterisk open source telephony solution. Digium solutions are now deployed in government, business and education environments in 140 countries across North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Asterisk's mature feature set and flexible open source license have led to rapidly growing adoption worldwide. Recent Digium deployments include The University of Pennsylvania; the city of Pforzheim, Denmark; Sam Houston University; Ntegrated Solutions; the city of Schoten, Belgium; Iowa City Carousel Auto Group; Anderson Associates Architects; and IT Connection, a Russian retirement funds company. To read more about these and other Digium customers, please visit www.digium.com.
"More than 2 million users have embraced Digium's open source technology, making Asterisk one of the most successful open source initiatives to date," said Danny Windham, CEO of Digium. "We continue to see tremendous interest in Digium solutions and ways in which Asterisk can be adapted to meet the dynamic needs of today's growing businesses."
UnWired Buyer, a company that delivers real-time, interactive mobile notification and transaction services, recently used Digium to develop an award-winning Asterisk application for eBay. Using UnWired's application, eBay users can now bid on items from their mobile phones and receive reminders so they don't miss out on the action while they are away from their computers.
"We looked at a couple of other popular commercial providers, but none of them could really solve our problem," said Eric Smith, president and CTO of UnWired Buyer. "With Digium and Asterisk, we went from proof-of-concept to application delivery in just four months. That would have been impossible with a closed source platform."
To read more about UnWired Buyer's use of Digium and Asterisk, please visit www.digium.com.
About Asterisk
Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium, Inc., has been contributed to from open source software engineers around the world. Currently boasting over 1 million users, Asterisk supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, and VoIP packet protocols such as IAX, SIP and H.323. It supports U.S. and European standard signaling types used in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure.
About Digium
Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® company, is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform. Digium provides hardware and software products, including the Asterisk Business Edition™, its professional grade version of Asterisk, to enterprises and telecommunications providers worldwide. Digium also offers a full range of professional services including consulting, technical support and custom software development services.
Used in combination with Digium's telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures. Digium's offerings include VoIP, conferencing, voicemail, legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, media servers and gateways, and application servers and gateways.
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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