Digium Presents 2015 Pinnacle Awards to its Outstanding Channel Partners

Annual Awards Recognize Partners Who Excel at Providing Digium's Switchvox and Asterisk Communications Solutions Combined with Excellent Customer Service

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Digium, Inc.

Mar 05, 2015, 09:00 ET

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, today announced its annual Pinnacle Partner award winners, recognizing the company's outstanding channel partners around the world. Award winners were selected based on their annual sales from 2014 and commitment to excellent customer satisfaction. They are unparalleled in developing and growing their partnership with Digium and driving customer success for Switchvox business phone systems and Asterisk custom communications solutions. Partners are certified to sell Digium's full offering of unified communications (UC) and VoIP business phone solutions, Asterisk hardware, IP phones, gateways, telephony interface cards and redundancy appliances.

"Each year, it's an honor to recognize so many of our channel partners who have committed to servicing their customers and growing their businesses with Digium solutions," said Jim Butler, director of worldwide channel sales for Digium. "The Pinnacle Awards serve as appreciation for those partner organizations that have helped to expand our worldwide base of customers through the delivery of our affordable, feature-rich Switchvox phone system and custom Asterisk-based communication solutions."

Awards were presented to partners in the following categories:

Pinnacle Circle of Excellence is comprised of Digium's top 25 value added reseller (VAR) partners worldwide. They represent those who have generated the highest revenue across all Digium solutions and have achieved the highest levels of qualification and certification in our channel partner program.

Chromis Technology, LLC
Max-IS Inc
W Squared Dynamics
LeBlanc Communications Group, Inc.
Midwest Telecom Consulting, Inc.
NetWorks, Inc.
Teledynamic Communications, Inc.
Digital Agent, LLC
Freeway Communications
BEMA Information Technologies LLC
Big Water Technologies
The Fulcrum Group
Golden Integrated Solutions, Inc.
Consolidated Electrical Distributors
LightBound, LLC
AVENCALL
KME Systems, Inc.
Voneto LLC
Belmont Information Technology, LLC
Qubit Networks, LLC
TRACI.net, Inc.
VanBelkum Companies, LLC
Akuity Technologies
Source One Business Services, LLC
Monarque Telecom

Partner of the Year has achieved the highest revenue, the top certifications and highest level of qualification in our partner program in their respective geographic territory.

Chromis Technology, LLC - United States
Golden Integrated Solutions, Inc. - Canada
Telonline LLC - Latin America
AVENCALL - Europe
QTEC Systems - Australia/New Zealand
Alliance Infotech Pvt Ltd - Asia Pacific
Openway Technology - Middle East
Clarotech Consulting - Africa

Direct Marketing Partner of the Year operates a business model focused heavily on internet marketing and fulfillment. They have achieved the top certifications and highest level of qualification within our partner program. They have achieved the highest annual revenue across all Digium solutions, in their respective geographic territory.

VOIP Supply

Distributor of the Year has achieved the highest annual revenue growth across all Digium solutions in their respective geographic territory.

Wavelink Communications Pty Ltd – Australia/New Zealand (APAC)
DVCOM – Middle East
Entatech UK Ltd. – United Kingdom (Europe)
Jenne, Inc. – United States
Gentek – Canada
ABP International – Latin America

Partner Program Advantages
Digium's award-winning Partner Program provides opportunities for resellers to sell the full line of Digium's premises and cloud-based Switchvox® Unified Communications solutions, or build custom communications systems with Asterisk, the world's most popular open source telephony software. Partners also can sell Digium phones, hardware and third-party products designed to build custom communications solutions. The program features levels geared toward a partner's capabilities and business model, with incentives, benefits, training and promotions designed to help authorized Digium partners have a competitive advantage in today's growing VoIP and business phone market.

"These awards highlight the extent of market reach and customer satisfaction that can be achieved through a mutually-beneficial partnership in today's competitive UC environment," said Steve Harvey, vice president of worldwide sales for Digium. "We are pleased to work with partners who have successfully leveraged their VoIP expertise to bring our family of value-based Digium solutions to their local markets."

To learn more about Digium's Partner Program, apply online or to find a partner in your area, visit:www.digium.com/partner. For more information about Switchvox premises and cloud-based solutions, visit: http://www.digium.com/switchvox.

About Digium
Digium®, Inc. provides Asterisk® software, telephony hardware, and on-premises and hosted Switchvox business phone systems that deliver enterprise-class Unified Communications (UC) and UC as a Service (UCaaS) solutions at an affordable price. Digium is the creator, primary developer and sponsor of the Asterisk project; the world's most widely used open source communications software. Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a feature-rich communications server. A community of more than 80,000 developers and users worldwide uses Asterisk to create VoIP communication solutions in more than 170 countries. Since 1999, Digium has empowered developers to create innovative communications solutions based on open standards and open source software, providing an alternative to proprietary phone systems. Digium Switchvox Cloud and other cloud-based products and services are offered through Digium Cloud Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Digium, Inc. Digium's business communications products are sold through a worldwide network of reseller partners. More information is available at http://www.digium.com and http://www.asterisk.org.