Asterisk Hits One Millionth Download
Source: www.voip-news.com
The folks at Digium are ending this year off with a bang, especially considering the recent announcement that their Asterisk software has just reached the milestone of its one millionth download. This quarter also marks their 24th straight quarter of growth, and they have had many highlights in the process, including new leadership appointments, partnerships and awards in their cap.
“I am very proud of the great strides Digium made in 2007 to demonstrate Asterisk’s unquestionable growth and impact on the SMB and enterprise markets,” said Digium CEO Danny Windham, in a recent press release. “In many ways 2007 was Digium’s coming of age with regard to aligning award-winning products and partnerships with a clear vision for the future of open source telephony and unified communications.”
Additional highlights for Digium this year include:
Executive Appointments - Danny Windham joined the company as CEO from ADTRAN, a $500M+, publicly-traded networking company. Mark Spencer, founder of Digium and creator of Asterisk, assumed the role of CTO to focus on growing the future of Asterisk and developing new unified communications applications based on open source. Digium also added a VP of Sales and VP of Engineering to round out its management team.
Acquisitions - With its new executive leadership team in place, Digium looked to grow its presence within the Asterisk open source community and SMB VoIP market. In July, Digium acquired Sokol & Associates, the premier provider of training for Asterisk users and producer of the AstriCon open source user conference. In September, Digium completed its acquisition of Switchvox, a leading provider of IP PBX phone systems powered by Asterisk for SMBs.
Partnerships - In October, Digium announced a partnership with 3Com Corporation to offer “3Com Asterisk” to small businesses that need a reliable, easy-to-deploy voice solution based on open standards and open source. Digium also announced a licensing agreement with NTT Software Corp., a subsidiary of Japan’s largest phone company, to sell products based on Asterisk Business Edition in Asia.
Industry Awards - Digium won InfoWorld’s Best of Open Source Software (BOSS) award and was the only open source company recognized in the VoIP category. Digium was named the top emerging VoIP vendor by Computer Reseller News (CRN) and its newly acquired Switchvox SMB 3.0 Software received the publication’s “Tech Innovator” award. Network World named Digium an “open source company to watch” and CRM Magazine gave Digium its “Rising Star” and “Service Excellence” award. Locally, Digium accepted the Alabama “Governor’s Trade Excellence Award” for its commitment to local and international business.
Reseller Program and the Digium Asterisk Marketplace - In 2007, Digium announced a new Authorized Reseller Program and unveiled the Digium Asterisk Marketplace to give the Asterisk community of end-users, developers, small businesses and enterprises a one-stop online destination for all their open source VoIP deployment needs.
Digium|Asterisk World - This year marked the inaugural debut of Digium|Asterisk World, an event solely dedicated to advancing open source IP telephony communications in business environments. The event included a ceremony announcing the winners of the first annual Digium “Innovation Awards” honoring businesses putting Asterisk to use in new and exciting ways.
