Digium to Host Two New Asterisk Training Courses at Digium|Asterisk World Conference in Miami
January 22, 2009
One-Day Courses Added to Program at Open Source Conference Collocated with ITEXPO, World’s Leading IP Communications Conference
Norwalk, CT – January 22, 2009 – Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) and Digium, Inc., the Asterisk (
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Digium|Asterisk World is collocated with TMC’s popular INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO East 2009 (ITEXPO) at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
The two new training courses offered by Digium are as follows:
Tuesday, February 3, 2009: Switchvox (News - Alert) Training
This course serves as a one-day introduction to the Switchvox system. The goals and objectives of this class are to:
- Explain the role of a Switchvox system within a corporate IT/telephony infrastructure
- Familiarize the student with the initial setup and configuration of their Switchvox system
- Describe the telephony connections which Switchvox supports and identify the hardware needed to effect this connectivity
- Identify the basic characteristics of analog and digital PSTN connections and how VoIP compares and contrasts with these
- Configure Switchvox to deliver basic PBX (News - Alert) functionality including basic call routing, voicemail and directory services
- Connect Switchvox to a Voice-over-IP service provider
- Show how to use the Switchboard application to give users a rich interface with which to interact with the telephone system l
Wednesday, February 4, 2009: Asterisk 123
The Asterisk 123 course is a gentle introduction to the Asterisk Open Source PBX. It introduces the student to the many roles that Asterisk can play and walks them through setting up Asterisk for the first time. At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- Identify the purpose and primary functionality of Asterisk as a PBX and as an application development platform
- Describe the telephony connections which Asterisk supports and identify the Digium hardware needed to effect this connectivity
- Identify the basic characteristics of analog and digital PSTN connections and how VoIP compares and contrasts with these
- Configure Asterisk to deliver basic PBX functionality including basic call routing, voicemail and directory services
- Learn the basics of becoming an Asterisk administrator
For both classes, each participant receives a student kit which includes:
- Digium TDM411B Analog card (1 FXO port + 1 FXS port)
- Polycom SoundPoint IP 330 SIP Phone
- Asterisk Tote Bag
- Asterisk T-shirt
- Asterisk SWAG Kit
- Calculator, pen, mouse pad, etc.
About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping clients build communities in print, in person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and NGN magazines. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by two to three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends. In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO,
4GWE Conference and
Digium|Asterisk World.
TMC has also recently launched new industry-specific Web sites: WiMAX (
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www.tmcnet.com.
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 makes Asterisk software available to the open source community and delivers 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.
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Edited by
Stefania Viscusi
