Digium® Expands North American Distribution Channel for SMB Unified Communications Solutions with Distribution Agreement with SYNNEX Corporation

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digium® Inc., the Asterisk® company, today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a business process services company that services IT resellers, to distribute its Switchvox business phone systems and telephony cards to resellers in the U.S. and Canada. SYNNEX is a distributor that supplies more than 15,000 resellers in North America. Digium will work with SYNNEX’ dedicated telephony group to provide unified communications solutions to resellers that service the small-to-medium sized business.

“The combination of our award-winning Digium solutions and SYNNEX’ focus on telephony will help us broaden our reseller channel in North America”

“By working with Digium, we add a differentiated offering for our resellers who focus on the SMB market,” said Bob Stegner, senior vice president, marketing for North America at SYNNEX Corporation. “Resellers will benefit from the Switchvox offering, which is an affordable, flexible, feature-rich unified communications system. Together with Digium, we look forward to expanding the footprint of this innovative solution to our reseller customers.”

“The combination of our award-winning Digium solutions and SYNNEX’ focus on telephony will help us broaden our reseller channel in North America,” said Steve Harvey, vice president of Digium’s worldwide sales. “Our award-winning partner program offers attractive margins, outstanding products and the support resellers need to win more business. We look forward to providing SYNNEX’ partners with an affordable alternative to traditional phone system suppliers.”

SYNNEX is authorized to offer the full range of Digium products, including Switchvox business phone systems, Asterisk Business Edition software, and digital and analog telephony cards. For more information on joining Digium’s award-winning partner program, visit www.digium.com/synnex. For more information about Digium’s family of products, visit http://www.digium.com/en/products/.

About Digium

Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk; a 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 http://www.digium.com.

Forward Looking Statement

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