Digium and Pulvermedia to Launch Digium/Asterisk World, October 29-November 1, 2007 in Boston

BEVERLY, Mass., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Digium(R), Inc., the Asterisk(R) Company, and Pulvermedia today announced that Digium/Asterisk World -- the first and only open source telephony community event inspired by the world's most popular open source IP-PBX code, Asterisk -- will take place along side Fall VON, on October 29-November 1, 2007, at the Boston Convention and Expo Center.

With millions of downloaded versions of Asterisk all over the world, open source telephony has become the latest source of telephony growth and innovation. Digium/Asterisk World will assemble the IP communications industry's leading open source influencers, developers, vendors, resellers and end-users, at a single event, to conduct business, and to discuss the current and future trends affecting open source development.

"Digium/Asterisk World will address the needs and disruptions that are being caused by the fast-growing open source IP Communications community, by delivering the latest, and most appropriate content from all segments of the open source community," said Digium's CEO Danny Windham. "The combination of our content, and Pulvermedia's management and marketing talents will produce a world class event for the open source, and IP communications communities."

Mark Spencer to Discuss Digium Asterisk World at Next Week's Spring VON

On Wednesday, March 21, at 9:30 AM, Digium Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Mark Spencer will open the second day of the Spring VON Expo in San Jose by delivering an Industry Perspective session that will discuss Digium/Asterisk World in further detail. Mark Spencer, additional senior level Digium executives, and more than a dozen Asterisk partners will be at VON all week -- in the Asterisk Pavilion, and Digium Theatre -- showcasing the latest open source technologies and offering training tips to Asterisk developers.

The VON Expo (http://www.von.com/exhibitors.html ) will provide attendees with the opportunity to compare and evaluate solutions from more than 300 exhibitors. VON conference sessions (http://www.von.com/schedule.html ) run each day from 9:00 AM -- 5:00 PM. To register for the VON expo, please visit: https://secure.pulver.com/von/register.html .

About Asterisk

Code for Asterisk(R), originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium(R), Inc., has been contributed from open source software engineers around the world. Currently boasting over two million users, Asterisk supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, featuring VoIP packet protocols such as SIP and IAX among others. 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(R), Inc., the Asterisk(R) 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 AsteriskNOW(TM), the complete open source software appliance; Asterisk Business Edition(TM), the professional-grade version of Asterisk; and Asterisk Appliance(TM) 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.

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. Additional information can be found at http://www.digium.com/ .

About Pulvermedia:

Pulvermedia is the leading integrated media company, building communities and providing ready marketplace access through its unparalleled blend of trade shows, publications, web channels, and progressive cutting-edge media. And as the foremost integrated media company, Pulvermedia is ideally poised to deliver a vast range of messages to a wide variety of audiences, including technology buyers and sellers, government regulators, industry analysts, luminaries, pundits and bloggers. For more information, please visit http://www.pulvermedia.com/ .

The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, 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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