Esko Heikkinen
esko.heikkinen@instcom.fi
Tel. +358942419900

Julie Webb
Digium, Inc.
256 428 6203

Instcom Oy and Digium, Inc start co-operation in Finnish and Baltic markets

Setera Group Company - Instcom Oy has signed a distributor agreement with the creator and primary developer of Asterisk - the industry's first open source telephony platform.

Digium Inc - The Asterisk Company and value added distributor Instcom have signed distributor agreement covering Finnish and Baltic markets (Estonia, Latvia and Liethuania. Instcom will distribute the whole Digiumi product range to resellers in these markets as well as provides pre- and postsales support to Digium authorized resellers within the territory. Via this new contract fast growing Digium gets a firm foothold on these markets. Digium provides hardware and software products, including AsteriskNOW™, the complete open source software appliance; Asterisk Business Edition™, the professional-grade version of Asterisk; and the Asterisk Appliance™, hardware-based telephony solution, to enterprises and telecommunications providers worldwide. Digium also offers a full range of professional services, including consulting, technical support, and custom software development. "Finnish and Baltic markets are globally in the forefront of adaptation and development open source based solutions. We believe that there is a growing demand for our products and solutions arising from the vision of open communications. Now with the regional distribution and support in place we are ready to transform the way businesses acquire and operate their communication systems says Greg Vance, DIrector of Worldwide Sales, ) from Digium.

"Via Instcom and it's resellers we can provide full set of solutions to the enterprises, organisations and operators who want to deploy Asterisk based technologies continues Vance.

"Open source telephony is globally significant trend and Digium has a leading role on that ecosystem as a developer and a vendor. Digium's products fit well into Instcom's growing portfolio of voice centric, best of breed vendors. Today we can offer the most comprehensive voice centric portfolio of products and support services in the market to our channel partners says Instcom CEO Esko Heikkinen. "Digium's decision to choose Instcom to be the main partner in this territory is a good demonstration of our commitment to provide the best solutions to our resellers in all areas of telephony Heikkinen continues. Heikkinen jatkaa."

About Instcom
Setera Group Company - Instcom Oy is a value added distributor of voice centric communication solutions within Finnish and Baltic markets providing to it's channel partners also pre- and postsales support and consultancy services. www.instcom.fi.

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 to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey solutions or to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems. More information is available at www.digium.com.

The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, Asterisk Business Edition, AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Appliance, Switchvox and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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