Norwalk, Connecticut - (The Hosting News) - October 9, 2008 - TMC's Internet Telephony Conference and EXPO East 2009 will feature the Digium/Asterisk World, co-hosted by Technology Marketing Corporation and Digium, the Asterisk Company, in Miami, Florida.

Rich Tehrani, President of TMC and ITEXPO East 2009 conference chairman remarked, ''We are honored to host Digium/Asterisk World, as open source technology is such a critical driver the growth of the communications market. Mark Spencer and the Digium team are without question true pioneers and innovators. What is important to note is that by joining forces with Digium/Asterisk World, ITEXPO reinforces its position as the industry's most valuable, major communications event worldwide.''

Entering its third year, Digium/Asterisk World at ITEXPO will be the conference that addresses ''Everything Asterisk'' for business users, resellers and executive decision-makers. The event will be held February 2-4, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

All can come to Digium/Asterisk World to discover how Asterisk, the world's most widely used open source telephony software, can save them money and allow them to create more flexible telephony solutions.

The conference will include both booth exhibition space and a Presentation Theatre on the EXPO floor. In addition, TMC and Digium will collaborate to create the conference track agenda, which will be announced in the coming months.

Mark Spencer, Founder and CTO of Digium and original creator of Asterisk noted, ''Digium has led the Asterisk revolution in telecommunications. Hosting Digium/Asterisk World at IT EXPO East 2009 will allow us to share the vision and power of Asterisk with a broad set of customers who might not be familiar with open source. By giving them their first taste of Asterisk, we empower them to not only save money but to use and create new technologies that never existed before.''

ITEXPO East 2009 is the world's largest and most significant communications technology event, featuring more than 200 companies exhibiting on the EXPO floor and hundreds of sessions led by the industry's most prominent thought leaders. The show helps attendees identify the issues and challenges affecting the deployment of communications technologies. It provides a comprehensive forum for evaluating the latest products and services and delivers a face-to-face networking opportunity that service providers, carriers, resellers, distributors, equipment manufacturers and IT executives from enterprise and SMB companies need to cultivate new business relationships.

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.

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 IMS Magazine. 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 and EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer Conference.

TMC has also recently launched new industry-specific Web sites: WiMAX.TMCnet.com, Cable.tmcnet.com, Robotics.tmcnet.com, Satellite.tmcnet.com, Green.tmcnet.com.

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, Internet Telephony, SIP Magazine, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is a source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 3,000 sites in the world by alexa.com, TMCnet serves more than one million unique visitors each month. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. In addition, TMC produces Internet Telephony Conference EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, IMS Expo and Call Center 2.0 Conference.

To learn more about Digium, please visit: www.digium.com.

For more information about TMC, please visit: www.tmcnet.com.

To learn more about the event, please visit: www.itexpo.com.