beelinebill January 13th, 2009

As we enter our third year running Digium Asterisk World (DAW), we have received excellent feedback from attendees, partners and media. Positioned as “All things Asterisk for business”, DAW is differentiated from Astricon, Digium’s Asterisk Developer and User Community focused event held in the fall. Another way to consider these events is that DAW is for “the unconverted” and Astricon is for the already converted.  We partnered with TMC and IT Expo to collocate this event because we felt this was the perfect combination of resellers, users and decision makers to educate them on the choice of open source telephony solutions, share best practices and examples, run a conference track and provide a theater for presentations on the exhibit floor as part of the Digium Asterisk World pavilion. As one of the key architects of the initial concept and team member delivering this, the third year of this event, I will share my top 5 reasons YOU should attend!

5.  Formal Education: Attendees can receive Asterisk Training by Digium’s world class training department, a new addition to this year’s Digium Asterisk World. Nothing like training in Miami in winter!

4.  Informal Education: Your choice of conference track where you can learn how to save money from those who have implemented enterprise open source Asterisk-based call centers, virtualization, and emerging unified communications solutions; attendees also can visit the pavilion-based theater where you can rest your feet and learn the basics from Digium, exhibitors and partners and be close to the exhibits to see live demos and talk to specialists. How best to learn firsthand in an exciting environment!

3. Live demonstrations: Asterisk ecosystem partners and Digium booth personnel show attendees and decision makers that interoperable solutions exist today to deliver solutions and leveraging the “Everything Asterisk for Business” theme.  Seeing is believing!

2. Building Enterprise Asterisk-based solutions Attendees will meet end users, integrators, resellers, and long time Asterisk experts and talk about building and delivering business class solutions that provide faster ROI and save costs. Learn from others’ experiences in these sessions.

1. Industry Leading event; Miami in winter: Be warm; the weather in Miami usually hits the 70’s in February. Where would you prefer to be?

Please join the excitement in Miami February 2-4, meet several open source-based Asterisk solutions providers, the Digium team, users, successful resellers and integrators and see many demonstrations of feature rich and cost savings solutions! To register, visit http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/conference/east-09/e-09-registration.aspx.

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