Digium announces it has acquired Sokol & Associates. Digium has long enjoyed a close relationship with Steve Sokol and his colleagues, all of whom have joined Digium’s team. By acquiring the company, Digium gains an additional channel through which it can communicate Asterisk enhancements to the IT, telephony, software development, reseller and call center professionals who use the software every day.

Digium created, maintains, owns and is the innovative force behind Asterisk, the open source telephony communications software in use by more than two million servers today. Asterisk powers Digium’s family of software and hardware appliances and enables other companies, which often use older versions of the software in their own VoIP products.

Sokol & Associates has more than 10 years of experience working in the VoIP industry. The firm is staffed with network and systems engineers and software developers whose deep knowledge of Asterisk’s many features allow them to run intensive training sessions across North America and Europe. Steve Sokol, a prominent member of the Asterisk community, will take responsibility for planning future software offerings from Digium, which offers, in addition to Asterisk, AsteriskNOW, Asterisk Business Edition™ and the AsteriskGUI.

Sokol & Associates created and has managed AstriCon, the conference dedicated to expanding the knowledge of Asterisk, since 2004. Digium has been the Diamond sponsor of the conference, which will be held in Phoenix, Ariz., this year from September 24 through 28.

“Asterisk is one of the most commonly used open source projects today, and as the community of users and contributors grows, we want to deepen our relationship with them,” said Mark Spencer, founder and chief technology officer of Digium. “Sokol & Associates has run Asterisk training classes around the world and has long been a central part of this community. By bringing Steve and his group on, Digium gains another conduit to new and advanced Asterisk users around the world.”