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Digium President and Creator of Asterisk to Keynote INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006
NORWALK, Conn. --(Business Wire)-- Jan. 17, 2006 -- Mark Spencer of Digium, Inc. to Kick-Off Leading VoIP Conference at Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center Next Week
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC(R)) announces today that Mark Spencer, president of Digium Inc., original creator of Asterisk and pioneer of open source telephony, has agreed to deliver the opening keynote address at its INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006, on January 24-27, 2006 at the Ft. Lauderdale Convention Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Mr. Spencer's address, which is open to all registered attendees, will take place Tuesday, January 24th at 11:30am EST. Registration for the conference is now open at http://www.itexpo.com.
INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, held since 1999, is the world's largest and best-attended VoIP trade show. Last October, TMC's INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO in Los Angeles attracted over 7,000 buyers and sellers of IP Telephony products and services. For this upcoming January show, TMC projects total attendance to exceed 8,500.
"Mark Spencer is clearly one of the most influential figures in VoIP. The founder of the revolutionary Asterisk Open Source PBX, Mr. Spencer is credited with helping to accelerate the growth VoIP has seen over the past several years," said Rich Tehrani, TMC president and conference chairman for INTERNET TELEPHONY.
"We are dedicated to furthering open source development in the telephony industry," states Mr. Spencer. "With the anticipated growth of VoIP solutions, we hope our perspective on the role open source will play as the industry evolves will provide INTERNET TELEPHONY attendees with new insight into the future of the telecom industry."
In addition to Mark Spencer's appearance, INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2006 features keynotes by Tom Ridge, CNBC Anchor Ron Insana, and executives from IBM, Cisco, AT&T, Aculab, General Motors, Avaya, Covad, Quintum, Nortel, Level 3, Netcentrex, Interactive Intelligence, Time Warner Telecom, AudioCodes and Expedient Systems.
Registration for the conference and trade show is now open: http://www.itexpo.com. Vendors interested in exhibiting or sponsoring should contact Dave Rodriguez immediately at 1-203-852-6800, ext. 146 or e-mail drodriguez@tmcnet.com.
Press inquiries regarding Mark Spencer's address can be directed to Mostafa Razzak at 23-31 Communications: (646) 442-3361 or email m.razzak@23-31.com. Press inquiries regarding Digium and Mark Spencer can be directed to Janine Savarese at MRB Public Relations (732) 758-1100 or email jsavarese@mrb-pr.com.
About TMC(R)
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print magazines: Customer Interaction Solutions, Internet Telephony, SIP Magazine and IMS Magazine; as well as the digital publications, Speech-World, WiFI Telephony Magazine, VoIP Developer, IPTV Magazine and WiMAX Magazine. TMC also produces TMCnet, the world's leading communications and technology Web site. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, The VoIP Developer Conference, Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit. TMCnet, ranked among the top 2,500 Web sites in the World by Alexa.com, publishes more than 20 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit http://www.tmcnet.com.
About Digium
Digium is the original creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source PBX and Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet architectures.
Digium provides quality hardware and software products that enable telephony applications including legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, next generation gateways, media servers, and application servers. Digium also offers a full range of professional services including consulting, technical support, and customer software development services.
About Asterisk
Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc., has been contributed from open source software engineers around the world. It supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of voice over traditional telephony interfaces, and VoIP packet protocols such as IAX(TM) (Inter-Asterisk eXchange), SIP and H.323. It supports US and European standard signaling types used in business phone systems, allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated networks and existing infrastructure.
The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of Digium Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respected owners.
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