Digium Opens New State-of-The Art Facility to Handle Company’s Growth

Chamber Board Chairman Evans Quinlivan, Huntsville Mayor Loretta Spencer, Digium CEO Danny Windham, Madison County Commission Chairman Mike Gillespie and Digium Founder and Chief Technology Officer Mark Spencer cut the ribbon on Digium's innovative new facility in Cummings Research Park.

October 23, 2007

Huntsville-based Digium, creator and primary developer of Asterisk®, the telecommunications industry's first open source telephony platform, recently celebrated a ribbon cutting and grand opening at its new state-of-the-art headquarters in Cummings Research Park.

Evans Quinlivan, Chairman of the Chamber board of directors and the CEO of Madison County for First American Bank, said Digium has become a global leader in how businesses acquire and utilize their telecommunications systems.

“Digium is a remarkable success story that showcases this company as a global leader in information technology and our community as one of the leading high tech communities in the nation. Thanks to cutting-edge, innovative companies such as Digium, more and more often the nation is looking at this community as a true hotbed for technology and innovation,” Quinlivan stated.

Digium, which has called Huntsville home since its founding in 1999, is the leading worldwide provider of open source VoIP solutions.

Starting with founder Mark Spencer’s creation of the Asterisk® tool when he was a student at Auburn University, Digium has seen meteoric growth in the last several years as the adoption and demand for open source telephony solutions have increased. Since being started by open source telephony pioneer Spencer, the company has grown from one employee to about 120 employees with employment and growth expected to increase. Asterisk has become the most popular and successful open source communications platform in the world. In early 2007, Digium announced a new executive management team led by Danny Windham, former president of ADTRAN, to drive a bold new vision for the future of the company.

This vision involved several strategic initiatives including naming Spencer CTO and head of product innovation; acquiring Switchvox, a leading provider of IP PBX phone systems for small- and medium-sized businesses and acquiring Sokol and Associates, the leader in Asterisk training and operator of AstriCon, the leading Asterisk User Conference. Digium also recently signed a major partnership with 3Com to provide small businesses with a reliable, easy-to-deploy voice solution based on open standards.

"Digium is experiencing exciting growth as more and more businesses realize the technical superiority, flexibility and low cost of open source VoIP solutions," said Windham, president and CEO of Digium. "We are extremely thankful to both the Huntsville and Asterisk communities for contributing to our current and future success and look forward to even greater things as we occupy our new state-of-the-art facility."

The ribbon cutting at the new facility, located at 445 Jan Davis Drive N.W., included speeches by Huntsville Mayor Loretta Spencer, Mark Spencer, Windham and Clay Smith, son of the late ADTRAN CEO and Digium board member and former Chamber Board Chair Mark C. Smith.