Digium and Westcon Group Partner to Bring Value-Driven VoIP Communications Solutions to Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

Business Wire, March 18, 2008

Digium helps Westcon resellers capture open source opportunities and deliver turnkey IP-PBX solutions

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Digium[R], Inc., the Asterisk[R] Company, and Westcon Group, Inc., the leading specialty distributor in networking, convergence, security and mobility, today announced that Westcon is now offering Digium's complete line of Asterisk-based telephony solutions to its worldwide community of reseller customers. The ground-breaking partnership enables Westcon resellers to deliver open source-based, non-proprietary VoIP solutions to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) more economically.

The entire line of Digium's solutions is now available through Westcon's CollaborationPoint Open Source program, including the Switchvox[TM] IP PBX, Asterisk Appliance[TM], Asterisk Business Edition[TM] software and appliances, and Digium's complete line of analog, digital and voice processing telephony cards for Asterisk servers and appliances. By offering Digium solutions, Westcon resellers are now able to compete more effectively on price, performance and features, bringing greater value to the end-user community.

"Digium is the undisputed leader of open source innovation and is breaking new ground in providing SMBs with the means to integrate reliable and affordable IP communications platforms that meet the needs of evolving business," said Dan Pirro, group commercial sales manager of Westcon Group, Inc. "This partnership delivers greater competitive advantage to Westcon resellers as they look to provide businesses with customized and affordable, open source-based communications options where none previously existed."

Through Westcon's CollaborationPoint Open Source program, resellers will be able to access sales support, pre-sales engineering and post-sales support, advanced selling and configuration tools, authoritative market analysis and up-to-date product information designed to increase reseller profitability. In addition, all Digium products are backed by its Exceptional Satisfaction Program (ESP) money-back guarantee.

"By partnering with Westcon, we will be able to bring more affordable Asterisk-based VoIP solutions to the mass market and expand our mainstream channel coverage," said Steve Harvey, Digium's vice president of worldwide sales. "The Digium line of telephony products, along with Westcon's Asterisk-friendly ecosystem, will help Westcon resellers more confidently address new market opportunities by offering complete, open source-based communications solutions that compete with proprietary solutions on features, performance and price."

To learn more about CollaborationPoint Open Source, please visit the program portal at http://opensource.westcon.com.

About Westcon Group

Westcon Group, Inc. is the leading specialty distributor in networking, security, mobility and convergence for leading technology vendors, including Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and Polycom. Through its Westcon, Comstor and Voda One business practices, Westcon Group sells products and services to resellers, systems integrators and service providers. Westcon Group has particular expertise in the convergence of voice, data and video applications and technologies, including voice-over Internet protocol, or VoIP, security for networking and communications systems, remote access, Internet and e-business, virtual private networks, videoconferencing and wireless connectivity. For more information, visit www.westcongroup.com.

About Digium

Digium[R], Inc., the Asterisk[R] 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 makes Asterisk software available to the open source community and delivers 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 to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey solutions or to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems. More information is available at www.digium.com.

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