Who Is Digium What Is Asterisk

Who is Digium? What is Asterisk? Steve Sokol Product Manager Software Products

Who Is

Founded 1999 by Mark Spencer; now Chairman and CTO
The Author, Maintainer, and Sponsor of the Asterisk open source project
Commercial Asterisk licensing and support
Manufacturing of Asterisk Hardware (cards & appliances)
Based in Huntsville, AL and San Diego, CA with 130 Employees
Who is Digium? Switchvox IP PBX The Asterisk Appliance AA50 Asterisk Business Edition

Digium’s Corporate Roles Digium Benevolent Asterisk Project Owner and Maintainer For Profit Company All things Asterisk

Main Entry:
be·nev·o·lent
Function:
adjective
Date:
15th century
1 a: marked by or disposed to doing good <a benevolent donor> b: organized for the purpose of doing good <a benevolent society>2: marked by or suggestive of goodwill < benevolent smiles>
Benevolent

Digium – the Company
The creator and owner of Asterisk
Digium is “The ONLY Genuine Asterisk™” provider in the world, thus the only company that can commercially license it
The company that’s at the intersection of Open Source, IP Telephony, Telephony as an Application, and Unified Communications
Supplier of ‘All Things Asterisk’
Mark Spencer – The Asterisk Creator, Digium Founder and CTO

Digium On The Move…
Matrix Partner Investment ($13.8M 8/2006)
Expanded management team in 2007
Acquired Sokol and Associates (7/2007)
Acquired Switchvox (9/2007)
Announced partnerships with major industry players (i.e. 3Com 10/2007)
Moved into a new facility (10/2007)

Digium Products
Switchvox IP PBX Systems
Hardware & Software Appliances
TDM-VoIP Gateway Cards
Commercial Asterisk Licenses
Professional Services
Support
Asterisk Training

Digium Product Relationships

Digium Growth & Market Map 2002

Open Source Adoption IP Telephony Adoption Telephony as An Application Unified Communications

What Is

What is Asterisk ? An open source software application that converts a standard desktop or server computer into a highly flexible communications platform: +

What Can You Build With Asterisk? + = IP PBX (Switchvox) VoIP Gateway IVR Platform Voicemail Server Call Recorder Call Center ACD And More...

The Asterisk The Open Source Project
Over 3,000 downloads per day
Over 3.5 Million Servers deployed with Asterisk
Over 40,000 active on forums
Over 15,000 on active Asterisk mailing lists
Over 5000 on our Bug Tracker
Over 300 active contributors
Over 7M Web Site hits/month
Over 200 service providers worldwide using Asterisk
Asterisk Books available
Dedicated Tradeshows: AstriCon for Asterisk Users; Digium Asterisk World – Asterisk for business
The Asterisk Community The Asterisk Community was voted #1 Most Influential Individual in VoIP, VoIP Info 11/2006

Where Asterisk Fits

Asterisk-Based User Endpoints Assume: 40% of 3.5M Servers are production deployed (1.4M) 28,000,000 1000 2% - 28,000 108,150,000 n/a Totals 42,000,000 500 6% - 84,000 16,800,000 100 12% - 168,000 17,500,000 50 25% - 350,000 3,850,000 5 55% - 770,000 Total End Points Average # End Points Percent Asterisk Servers Deployed

What Is

What is Switchvox ?
Digium’s award winning IP PBX.
Offers the power and flexibility of Asterisk without the learning curve.
Offers a wealth of Unified Communications features at an unbeatable price.
Now launching version 3.5.
Now available on Digium appliances.

Thank you www.digium.com www.switchvox.com

Who Is Digium What Is Asterisk

by Carl Ford on Mar 22, 2008

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