Asterisk – Over 1.5 Million Served

Digium's Asterisk was downloaded 1.5 million times in 2008

In the face of economic woes, companies seem to be embracing both VoIP Telephone systems and Open Source software. Asterisk, an Open Source VoIP / PBX telephony system, clearly strikes a chord with many.

Earlier today, Digium (the makers of Asterisk), announced that in 2008 alone, Asterisk received more than 1.5 million downloads (which is 50% more downloads than last year). From the announcement:

Digium’s strong 2008 year highlights the attractiveness of less expensive, easily customizable open source software in the current recession. Asterisk is the world’s dominant open source telephony software. As the economic crisis worsened, Asterisk downloads rose by 32 percent from September through December, compared to a year ago.

For more information, please read the Digium press release.

About Digium
Digium®, Inc., the Asterisk® Company, created, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the most widely used open source telephony software. Since its founding in 1999, Digium has become the open source alternative to proprietary communication providers, with offerings that cost as much as 80 percent less. Digium offers Asterisk software free to the open source community and offers Asterisk Business Edition and Switchvox IP PBX Software to power a broad family of products for small, medium and large businesses. The company’s product line includes a wide range of hardware to enable resellers and customers to implement turnkey solutions or to design their own voice over IP (VoIP) systems. More information is available at www.digium.com.