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Digium, Inc.
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Asterisk: Bigger Than Anyone Else!

See how an industry sprang up around a single piece of software!

HUNTSVILLE, AL (January 14, 2005) — Digium will sponsor the first Asterisk Marketplace at Spring VON 2005! Nine companies will be featured at the Marketplace, all of whom use Asterisk at the core of their businesses. The space will sprawl over 1500 square feet, much bigger than any other VON booth! The following companies will be participating:

About Digium
Digium is the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first Open Source PBX. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over TDM, switched, and Ethernet architectures.

Digium solutions reduce the costs of traditional TDM and VoIP implementations through Open Source, standards-based software and next-generation gateways, media servers, and application servers. Digium hardware supports traditional voice protocols, including PRI, RBS, FXS, FXO, E&M, Feature Group D, Groundstart, Loopstart, and GR-303. Data protocols include PPP, Cisco HDLC, and Frame Relay. For packet voice, Asterisk supports IAX™ (Inter-Asterisk eXchange), SIP, MGCP, Skinny® (SCCP), and H.323 VoIP protocols.

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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