Digium

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This article is about Digium, Inc., the American developer of IP PBX hardware and software. For the Finnish research systems company, see Digium Ltd.

Digium, Inc. is a company based in Huntsville, Alabama which specializes in the development of PBX hardware and open-source telephony software. The company is the primary developer and sponsor of Asterisk™, The Open Source PBX. In addition, Digium develops PBX hardware and provides contract support and development services for Asterisk.

1 History
2 Products and Services
3 External links

[edit] History

Digium was founded by Mark Spencer as Linux Support Services in 1999. The original goal of the company was to provide contract support and development for Linux. Because Mark did not have the resources to purchase a PBX for his new company, he decided to begin writing one from scratch.

In 2001, the U.S. economy entered a period of recession, and demand for the company's services dried up. Mark decided to shift the company's focus to its fledgling open-source PBX product, Asterisk. The company was renamed "Digium" and incorporated as such in 2002.

Today, Digium is expanding rapidly and employs over ninety people.

[edit] Products and Services

[edit] Software

Asterisk, Digium's most well-known product, is an open-source PBX application which runs on commodity PC hardware.
Asterisk Business Edition is a version of Asterisk sold and distributed under a more traditional commercial license; unlike the open-source edition of Asterisk, it has been regression tested and comes with a warranty.
AsteriskNOW is a customized Linux distribution which allows for a quick and easy installation of Linux, Asterisk, and other assorted components.
Digium also negotiates OEM licenses for those wishing to integrate Asterisk into commercial products.

[edit] Hardware

TC400B, a hardware transcoder card that processes up to 96 bi-directional G.729a (8.0kbit) transformations or 92 bi-directional G.723.1 (5.3kbit) transformations without relying on the host CPU.
B410P, a PCI card which interfaces with up to four ISDN BRI lines.
S101i, affectionately called IAXy, is an Analog Telephony Adapter which speaks Asterisk's native IAX2 protocol.
TDM400P, a PCI card which interfaces with up to four analog telephone lines or analog telephone sets.
TDM2400P, a PCI card which interfaces with up to twenty-four analog telephone lines or analog telephone sets.
TE110P, a single-span T1 PCI interface card
TE205P/TE210P, dual-span T1 PCI interface cards
TE207P/TE212P, dual-span T1 PCI interface cards with hardware echo cancellation
TE405P/TE410P, quad-span T1 PCI interface cards
TE407P/TE412P, quad-span T1 PCI interface cards with hardware echo cancellation

[edit] Announced Products

Asterisk Appliance, a standalone embedded PBX targeted at small-to-medium businesses and remote branch offices of larger businesses.

[edit] Services

Digium products include support services. The company provides installation assistance for its commercial products. In addition, the company offers a variety of paid support, maintenance, and configuration packages in addition to custom development and integration services.