Asterisk 1.2 released

Digium Announces the Launch of Asterisk 1.2 at the IP.4.IT Conference 

Asterisk 1.2 has over 3,000 improvements, upgrades, fixes and additions 

HUNTSVILLE, AL and LAS VEGAS, NV - (November 16, 2005) - Digium Inc., the
creator of AsteriskR and pioneer of open source telephony, announced
Asterisk 1.2, today at the IP.4.IT conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. Asterisk
1.2 is the first major revision to Asterisk since the release of Asterisk
1.0 in September 2004, and includes over 3,000 feature additions and
improvements to the overall performance and efficiency of memory usage.
Asterisk, the world's first open source PBX, offers a strategic, highly
cost-effective approach to voice and data transport over TDM, IP and other
architectures.

"We have been working very hard with the support of the Asterisk community
to release version 1.2 of Asterisk," said Mark Spencer, president of Digium
and creator of Asterisk.  "As Asterisk plays an ever expanding role in the
telecommunications industry, it's important to support the rapid development
model of open source software - quickly moving features from concept to
product while retaining software quality and architectural integrity."

A significant number of changes have been made to the core of Asterisk
including code formatting, simplification and documentation. The Asterisk
developer community extends all over the world, and the new changes
incorporated in Asterisk 1.2 make it easier for new developers to get
involved. New features include:

* Improved voicemail features

* Addition of the DUNDi (Distributed Universal Number Discovery) protocol

* Easier Asterisk configuration

* Creation of a Realtime Database Configuration Storage Engine

* More power added to the Asterisk Dialplan

* Introduction of Asterisk Extension Logic, a new, flexible method for
configuring the dialplan

* New interface for dynamic IVR flow control

* Configurable access to general call features

* Improved SIP protocol support

* New features for the IAX (Inter-Asterisk eXchange) protocol

* Use of sound files for native music-on-hold

* Customized CDR Support

* PRI support improvements


 Support and Availability

Asterisk 1.2 will be available for download from Digium's website
(www.digium.com), FTP and CVS servers after 5:00PM Pacific Standard Time on
November 16th. 

About Digium 

Digium is the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's
first Open Source PBX and Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade
version of Asterisk. Used in combination with Digium's PCI telephony
interface cards, Asterisk offers a strategic, highly cost-effective approach
to voice and data transport over IP, TDM, switched and Ethernet
architectures.

Digium solutions reduce the costs of traditional TDM and VoIP
implementations through open source, standards-based software and innovative
hardware solutions, including legacy PBX, IVR, auto attendant, and next
generation gateways, media servers, and application servers.  Digium
hardware supports traditional voice and data protocols, and packet protocols
such as IAXT (Inter-Asterisk eXchange), and SIP VoIP.

Digium provides a highly refined selection of quality hardware and software
products, developed and implemented using innovative engineering techniques
(primarily open source development).  A full range of professional services
complement these product lines, including consulting, technical support, and
customer software development services.  The open source communications
revolution is here, and Digium is leading the way.

About Asterisk

Code for Asterisk, originally written by Mark Spencer of Digium Inc., has
been contributed from open source software engineers around the world. It
supports a wide range of TDM protocols for the handling and transmission of
voice over traditional telephony interfaces. It also supports US and
European standard signaling types used in standard business phone systems,
allowing it to bridge between next-generation voice-data integrated networks
and existing infrastructure. Using the IAX Voice over IP protocol, Asterisk
merges voice and data traffic seamlessly across disparate networks.
Asterisk is available as open source under the GPL, and from Digium in the
professional Asterisk Business Edition package, or under commercial license
terms.

The Digium logo, Digium, Asterisk, and the Asterisk logo are trademarks of
Digium Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respected owners.