Digium and TMC Host Sold Out Digium|Asterisk World 2010 at ITEXPO East in Miami

NORWALK, Conn. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Digium®, the Asterisk Company, today announced that all exhibit space has sold out at their Digium|Asterisk World 2010 conference, collocated with ITEXPO East 2010, January 20-22, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Digium and TMC officials are in negotiations with Convention Center staff to identify additional space to for exhibiting opportunities at the event.

The Fourth Annual Digium|Asterisk World will be the largest and most comprehensive to date, with expanded content covering: call centers; cloud computing; government/enterprise/carrier applications; and a number of sessions identifying opportunities for the entire Asterisk ecosystem. This three-day conference and expo attracts a broad group of Asterisk developers, resellers and professionals who design and manage large enterprise, government and carrier networks.

Asterisk, created and maintained by Digium, is the world's leading open source telephony engine and tool kit. Today, open source telephony solutions account for more than 18 percent of all PBX sales in North America, equaling more new lines than any single conventional PBX or key system manufacturer. Open Source PBX technology creates significant revenue for businesses that install Open Source PBXs, and provide GUIs, PBX appliances, gateways, SIP phones, VoIP trunking and installation services.

The upcoming Digium|Asterisk World will identify opportunities for all sectors of the Asterisk Community. The educational content covers the entire spectrum of issues related to Asterisk-based, open source telephony.

"Asterisk, celebrating its 10^th birthday in 2009, is moving into the mainstream - at large enterprises, in government sectors, and amongst carriers," said Mark Spencer, CTO and founder of Digium, and the creator of Asterisk. "The upcoming Digium|Asterisk World will help developers, resellers, and Asterisk end users learn more about the opportunities emerging today, and it will provide the hands-on training needed to capitalize on these opportunities."

"We're extremely pleased to once again host a sold out Digium|Asterisk World at ITEXPO. The event provides the perfect forum for open-source developers, users, and channel resources to make the connections they need to develop the next generation of open-source telephony applications," said Rich Tehrani, CEO and group editor-in-chief of TMC. "We're looking forward to a tremendous event in Miami, and we're proud to feature Digium|Asterisk World as one of the featured collocated events at ITEXPO East 2010."

TMC and Digium will publish a complete list of conference tracks and sessions in the weeks ahead.

Sponsorship opportunities remain available for companies to showcase their offerings to Digium|Asterisk World and ITEXPO attendees. Interested parties should contact TMC's Joe Fabiano for more details. Registration for Digium|Asterisk World and ITEXPO is now open.

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 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.

About TMC:

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 3,500 most visited Web sites in the world by Quantcast, an independent Web traffic ranking site, TMCnet serves an average of two million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (ITEXPO), and 4GWE Conference (in conjunction with Crossfire Media). For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

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TMC Contact:
For Immediate Release PR
Todd Keefe, 617-262-1968 x 101
todd@firpr.com