Global Convergence, Inc. (Parent to Interlink Communication Systems) Awarded Digium® Pinnacle Partner Award for Outstanding Sales and Service of Switchvox Business Phone Systems and Asterisk Custom Communications

OLDSMAR, Fla., March 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Convergence, Inc. (GCI), parent to Interlink Communication Systems, a U.S.-based specialty distributor with a full channel-centric services portfolio, today announced it has been awarded a 2014 Digium Pinnacle Partner award in the category of Distribution Partner of the Year – United States.  These Pinnacle Partner awards are presented annually to leading Digium distribution partners who have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with Digium and driving customer success within their reseller base for either Switchvox Unified Communications (UC) or Asterisk Custom Communications solutions. Global Convergence, Inc. is one of the outstanding organizations selected based on annual sales growth, value added services and commitment to reseller satisfaction.

"We continue to see rapid acceleration and growth of our Digium business and are honored to receive this award, which recognizes our high growth status and collaboration with Digium," said Jim Bradshaw, CEO and Chairman of the Board. "Our company's high-touch model and value-added reseller services combined with Digium's compelling product portfolio has led to our continued growth. By partnering with Digium, we believe we are able to offer our resellers the greatest value and advanced features for their customers' office communications."

"Each year, it's an honor to recognize our distribution partners who have committed to servicing our resellers and helping them increase their revenue and profitability with Digium solutions," said Gayle Magee, director of worldwide distribution sales for Digium. "The Pinnacle Awards serve as appreciation for those partner organizations that have helped to expand our worldwide base of resellers through the delivery of our affordable, feature-rich Switchvox phone system and custom Asterisk-based communication solutions."

For more information on how GCI can help your business improve its business communications, contact us for a free demo or consultation. Learn more about our capabilities at:  www.globalconvergence.com or call (800)-638-8481.

About Global Convergence Inc.
Founded in 1990, Global Convergence Inc. empowers solution providers to bring emerging, innovative and disruptive technologies to market, providing them with a full, end-to-end array of global IT services to help exceed customer expectations.  We are a U.S.-based specialty distributor with a converged infrastructure model that fuses the best of emerging, innovative and disruptive technologies with a full, channel-centric services portfolio, offering everything from design to deployment in almost 100 countries.   Learn more about Global Convergence Inc. at www.globalconvergence.com.

About Digium
Digium®, Inc. provides Asterisk® software, telephony hardware, and hosted and on-premises Switchvox business phone systems that deliver enterprise-class Unified Communications (UC) and UC as a Service (UCaaS) solutions at an affordable price. Digium is the creator, primary developer and sponsor of the Asterisk project; the world's most widely used open source communications software. Asterisk turns an ordinary computer into a feature-rich communications server. A community of more than 80,000 developers and users worldwide uses Asterisk to create VoIP communication solutions in more than 170 countries. Since 1999, Digium has empowered developers to create innovative communications solutions based on open standards and open source software, providing an alternative to proprietary phone systems. Digium Switchvox Cloud and other cloud-based products and services are offered through Digium Cloud Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Digium, Inc. Digium's business communications products are sold through a worldwide network of reseller partners. More information is available at http://www.digium.com and http://www.asterisk.org.

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SOURCE Global Convergence, Inc.