Digium Named a 2009 Tech Innovator by Everything Channel’s CRN

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced that it was named a 2009 Tech Innovator by Everything Channel’s CRN in the Networking Voice/Data VoIP category. Everything Channel’s Tech Innovator award celebrates technology vendors that have introduced new solutions that drive advances throughout the technology channel.

“Congratulations to this year’s innovators. We applaud you on your success.”

Digium’s award-winning Switchvox family of IP PBX systems for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) provides affordable unified communications that integrates with popular web applications such as Google Maps and CRM Salesforce®, as well as providing chat, fax, video and conferencing capabilities. Digium's product lines include a wide range of hardware and software to enable resellers and businesses to implement turnkey business phone system solutions or to design their own Voice over IP (VoIP) systems at a fraction of the cost of proprietary PBX systems.

“Digium is truly honored to be recognized as a 2009 Tech Innovator by Everything Channel for our continued commitment to providing businesses with cutting-edge telephony solutions at a fraction of the cost of traditional PBXs,” said Steve Harvey, Digium’s vice president of worldwide sales. “We are pleased to share this award with our reseller partners who are moving the IP Telephony market forward with our unified communications solutions.”

“Innovation has been a critical, driving force behind growth and expansion of the IT industry since its inception and that innovation continues to this day. As a result of the steady, hard and often unheralded work in the R&D labs throughout the industry, technology, cultural and business leadership happens every day,” said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel. “Congratulations to this year’s innovators. We applaud you on your success.”

The Tech Innovators were nominated by their individual companies and final selections were made by the editors of CRN. In order to participate, products were required to have been introduced (as a new product or significant upgrade) after August 1, 2008 and all products were required to be shipping in volume by July 30, 2009. Products were also required to be sold via commercial or retail channels.

Winners will be announced in the December 14 issue of CRN. To learn more about becoming a Digium Authorized Reseller, go to www.digium.com/ucpartner.

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 and software to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey VoIP systems or to design their own custom telephony solutions. More information is available at www.digium.com.

About Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for managing and accelerating technology sales. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

United Business Media Limited (UBM) is a global media and marketing services company that informs markets and brings the world’s buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. UBM serves professional and commercial communities, from IT professionals to doctors, from journalists to jewelry dealers, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. UBM employs more than 6,500 people in more than 30 countries. UBM's businesses operating in the US include CMPMedica, Commonwealth Business Media, Everything Channel, PR Newswire, RISI, TechInsights, TechWeb and Think Services. UBM is listed on the London Stock Exchange (UBM.L) and has a market capitalization of $1.6 billion.