Announcing the 2010 Digium Innovation Award Winner
Julie November 17th, 2010
Honoree uses Asterisk®, the open source telephony platform, to Connect 100,000 Legacy Phone Users Supporting 7 Million Calls for Portuguese Institutions
The 2010 Digium Innovation Award is ITCenter, located in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. Since 2003, ITCenter has differentiated itself by specializing in innovative solutions based on open source technologies, including Asterisk. ITCenter used Asterisk to interconnect all 48 Portuguese Higher Education & Scientific Institutions, integrating 220 existing legacy PBX systems and enabling VoIP communications between all the institutions without any change to its existing phone systems. The implementation provides centralized management and billing of both the legacy and new system, while supporting an infrastructure that processes approximately 7 million monthly calls.
Applications for the 2011 Digium Innovation Award are now being accepted. Apply now.
About the Author
Julie Webb is the Marketing Communications (MARCOM) Director at Digium. She joined the company in January 2005 after spending many years in the telecommunications industry. Julie and her team are responsible for trade shows and events (most notably AstriCon) as well as corporate branding. Julie has a bachelor of science degree from Ball State Unive… more about Julie
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