Restructured program led by dedicated team offers partners specialized services and product certification

Voice On the Net Fall 2007

Digium/Asterisk World 2007

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced the re-launch of its partner program with new, specialized offerings for interoperability, software, solutions, training and service provider partners. The program, led by a dedicated team of Digium executives, is accepting applications at partners {at} digium(.)com.

The worldwide adoption of Asterisk continues to skyrocket as businesses realize the cost savings, flexibility and scalability of the revolutionary open source telephony platform. The Digium Partner Program is designed to give small businesses, enterprises and developers access to the industry’s leading technology vendors and service providers so they can quickly and easily deploy an end-to-end open source VoIP solution.

Partners will be able to submit eligible products for Digium certification of interoperability with Digium products such as Asterisk Business Edition™ and have greater access to Digium engineering and sales support to better market and distribute their products to the Asterisk community. Later this year, Digium will introduce a new online venue where visitors can search by keyword to find Asterisk-compatible products such as phones, VoIP services and application software. The new site will also enable Digium partners to open a direct line of communication with customers and the entire Digium Asterisk ecosystem.

“We continue to experience growing demand from technology partners looking to work with Digium to develop and distribute Asterisk-based VoIP solutions,” said Jim Webster, director of technology partnerships for Digium. “The Digium Partner Program will provide new and exciting options for partners and showcase the products and services that best complement Asterisk, so businesses can deploy open source VoIP solutions with confidence and ease.” The new Digium Partner Program will offer four different types of technology partnerships including:

Interoperability Partner—Interoperability Partners have products that are complementary to and interface with Asterisk. These products interact with Asterisk through a standards-based interface (e.g. SIP) and are certified for interoperability. Current Digium Interoperability Partners include Polycom, AudioCodes and Grandstream.

Software Partner—Software Partners offer applications that are used in conjunction with Asterisk to provide enhanced functionality (e.g. a billing platform). Partner software products include those that interface with Asterisk using an Asterisk-specific interface.

Solutions Partner—Solutions Partners offer a “whole product” solution based on Asterisk and incorporating Digium hardware and/or software. These offerings may be targeted at specific vertical industries or other niche markets. Current Digium Solutions Partners include Critical Links and Aspect Software.

Service Provider Partner—Service Provider Partners offer telephony services that can be used with Asterisk. This service may include traditional circuit-switched (PSTN) or packet-switched (VoIP) offerings. Current Service Provider Partners include VoicePulse, Bandwidth.com, Simple Signal and Transnexus.

For more information about the Digium Partner Program please email partners {at} digium(.)com or visit http://www.digium.com/en/ecosystem/partners/.

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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Contacts

Schwartz Communications
Dawn Sullivan or John McElhenny
781-684-0770
digium {at} schwartz-pr(.)com
or
Digium
Julie Webb, 256-428-6203
jwebb {at} digium(.)com