Digium Named to the 2005 ''pulver 100''; Telecom Adoption of Asterisk Lands Digium on High Growth List

1 January 1970

Digium Inc., the creator of Asterisk and pioneer of open source telephony, today announced that they were named to the 2005 "pulver 100". The pulver 100 is the first and foremost listing of privately held growth companies that represent the future of the communications ecosystem. Digium will be honored at the upcoming Fall 2005 VON event on September 19-22 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

Digium is leading the telecommunications industry into an open source model by creating Asterisk, the first open source PBX/telephony system and showcasing successful implementations at small businesses, service prodders and enterprises in nearly every vertical market. Nearly every communication technology innovator is working to support or build applications for the Asterisk open source telephony system. Digium is taking advantage of their self-created trend to sell it line cards transforming virtually any PC into a fully functional PBX. They are also selling the Asterisk Business Edition, a preconfigured, thoroughly tested PBX that eliminates coding. Digium along with other leading vendors will showcase their Asterisk applications at the Fall VON (booth #7020).

"Digium is an obvious fit for the pulver 100, and they are a company to keep a close eye on," said Jeff Pulver, Founder and Chairman of pulvermedia. "I'm proud to name Digium to this year's listing."

"Its truly exciting to watch a market grow before your eyes, it's a testament to the Asterisk developers around the world that have made Asterisk the reliable and powerful solution that it is today," said Mark Spencer, CEO of Digium and creator of Asterisk. "The recognition of Digium by pulvermedia is due to the growth of Asterisk and is also recognition of the Asterisk community at large."

About the pulver 100

Originally introduced in 2002, the pulver 100 features private companies in the communications sector that have substantial real-world deployments and enjoy significant growth rates. The value chain characterized by pulver 100 differs from the vertically integrated telecom model of the last century, focusing more on a networking-industry model that espouses open interfaces, connectivity decoupled from services, and software decoupled from hardware. For additional details on the 2005 pulver 100, please visit www.pulvermedia.com

About Digium

Digium is the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first Open Source PBX. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over TDM, switched, and Ethernet architectures.

Digium solutions reduce the costs of traditional TDM and VoIP implementations through Open Source, standards-based software and next-generation gateways, media servers, and application servers. Digium hardware supports traditional voice protocols, including PRI, RBS, FXS, FXO, E&M, Feature Group D, Groundstart, Loopstart, and GR-303. Data protocols include PPP, Cisco HDLC, and Frame Relay. For packet voice, Asterisk supports IAX(TM) (Inter-Asterisk eXchange), SIP, MGCP, Cisco Skinny(R) (SCCP), and H.323 VoIP protocols.

About pulvermedia

Founded by Jeff Pulver, pulvermedia produces the highly successful VON conferences, and is engaged in many activities that promote the growth of communication technology. For more information, please visit www.pulvermedia.com.

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