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trixbox.com Press Releases: BroadSoft and Fonality Team Up to Offer Managed IP PBX for Service Providers
Los Angeles and Gaithersburg, MD ? July 16, 2008 ? Fonality®, the leading provider of open-source phone systems, and BroadSoft Inc., the leading provider of VoIP application software, announced today that the two companies have certified their products to work together, enabling service providers to market and deploy Fonality to their small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers with confidence. BroadSoft®, which provides VoIP applications and SIP trunking to seven of the top 10 and 13 of the 25 largest carriers worldwide, has completed certification of Fonality trixbox® Pro and PBXtra® with BroadWorks®, BroadSoft?s industry-leading VoIP application platform for fixed-line and wireless service providers. BroadSoft has also joined the Fonality Authorized Certified Ecosystem (FACE).
BroadWorks offers a range of carrier-grade applications that includes hosted PBX, unified communications, mobile PBX, business trunking, and residential broadband. Fonality products include a family of open-source-based, hybrid-hosted IP PBX offerings tailored for SMBs. By certifying the products together, the companies offer service providers a complete line of hosted and premise-based unified communications offerings for customers of all sizes.
?By collaborating with Fonality, we?re giving service providers a way to go to market quickly with fully integrated, market-tested offerings for smaller companies,? said Leslie Ferry, Vice President of Marketing for BroadSoft. ?Service providers can now take new products to their customers with the confidence that comes from knowing that both companies? solutions will work together seamlessly.?
?BroadSoft is the dominant VoIP platform deployed by service providers and MSOs,? said Chris Vuillaume, Vice President of Business Development and Channels at Fonality. ?Their certification is an important stamp of approval for Fonality products and expands our market opportunity to include Tier 1 and Tier 2 providers.?
Fonality business phone systems are designed for modern workplaces, accommodating companies that have a mix of office, mobile and home-based workers. Fonality solutions support both VoIP calling and traditional phone lines, allowing a smooth transition for businesses upgrading their calling services. Its patented, hybrid-hosted architecture allows employee identity to be maintained as they travel between work, home and hotels. Fonality products, when paired with the award-winning HUD® presence software, provide a unified view of Instant Messaging, e-mail and calling for all fixed and mobile workers.
About the BroadWorks Platform
BroadSoft's IMS-compliant BroadWorks® platform provides a comprehensive range of VoIP applications, including Hosted Unified Communications, Mobile PBX, Business Trunking and residential broadband services fully integrated into a single VoIP application platform. BroadWorks is capable of providing these applications with the reliability, redundancy, scalability and regulatory capabilities required to deliver carrier-class service.
About BroadSoft
BroadSoft® provides VoIP application software that enables the delivery of hosted telephony and multimedia services. Its award-winning flagship BroadWorks technology empowers wireless, wireline and cable carriers to deliver next-generation voice and multimedia applications and advanced features that enable them to increase revenue, enhance competitive differentiation and elevate customer satisfaction. BroadSoft's family of carrier-class software products delivers the scale, open architecture and reliability that the world's leading telecommunications companies demand to serve mission-critical enterprise and residential broadband customers. BroadSoft provides VoIP applications to seven of the Top 10 and 13 of the Top 25 largest carriers worldwide, as measured by recent annual revenue, including Korea Telecom, KPN, SingTel, Sprint, Telefonica de Espana, Telstra, T-systems and Verizon. For additional information, go to www.BroadSoft.com.
About Fonality
Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5,000 companies and 100,000 end users in 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management? Hybrid-Hosted? architecture, plus an improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base which has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. PBXtra and trixbox Pro deliver the advanced capabilities of an enterprise-class phone system for 40 to 80 percent less than traditional offerings. Fonality's fully free and open source telephony platform, trixbox CE (www.trixbox.org), is home to one of the world's largest and fastest growing communities of open source telephony users, with over 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality headquarters are in Los Angeles and company investors include Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital
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BroadSoft and BroadWorks are registered trademarks of BroadSoft, Inc. Fonality, PBXtra, trixbox, and HUD are registered trademarks and Hybrid-Hosted and Anywhere Management are trademarks of Fonality. All other names are trademarks of their respective companies.
For further information contact:
BroadSoft Contact:
Francis Hopkins
+1 (240) 364-5375
fhopkins@broadsoft.com
Fonality Contact:
Phil Novack
Spark PR for Fonality
415-321-1870
phil@sparkpr.com
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trixbox.com Press Releases: trixbox Live! Sells Out, Event Expanded, Registration Reopened for Limited Time
LOS ANGELES ? June 17, 2008 ? Fonality®, the leading provider of open source business communications systems, announced today that it is has expanded the July 15th trixbox Live! event, a free gathering for the trixbox community being held at the Westin LAX in Los Angeles. trixbox Live! sold out on the first day of registration and has now been expanded to accommodate all trixbox community members. Designed as a free networking and education event for the largest open source telephony community, attendees are coming from around the United States and 20 different countries. To reserve space, register today at http://trixboxlive.eventbrite.com.
trixbox Live! is the first in a series of free nationwide events created especially for the trixbox CE and trixbox Pro communities. trixbox founder, Andrew Gillis, along with trixbox Community Director, Kerry Garrison, will host a full day of training on how to take trixbox to your market and be successful selling trixbox-based phone systems.
?I am humbled and excited by growth of the trixbox project,? say Andrew Gillis, trixbox founder. ?It started as a simple means of installing Asterisk for myself and some friends and has grown into the largest project in the world for open source telephony. And now with the trixbox Live! events, we can bring the community face to face with each other and spur more innovation and a deeper sense of community.?
trixbox Live! attendees will learn about new features, get insight into the trixbox roadmap and see live demos that demonstrate how to integrate trixbox with a variety of different hardware components. trixbox-specific sales training will include:
- How to explain the value of trixbox
- How to effectively sell against competing products
- Details on effective closing techniques
- How to increase your profits by cross-selling services and third-party products
All attendees will receive a free trixbox Pro demo kit, lots of great trixbox schwag and a free community networking lunch. The demo kit includes two trixbox Pro 2.0 Call Center Edition lifetime licenses with one month of unlimited technical support. As part of the sales training agenda, Brad Pitt, director of Fonality channel sales, will provide an overview of trixbox Pro 2.0 with HUD, the award-winning application that provides a unified view of chat, email, and calling for all fixed and mobile workers. For more information about trixbox Live! Visit http://trixbox.org/event/trixboxlive.
trixbox CE is the world?s largest free and open source telephony project with 3 million downloads, 200,000 live deployments, and is growing at 125,000 new downloads each month. Just released, trixbox CE 2.6.1 has new, expanded hardware support, an enhanced user interface and new admin modules, including an improved backup system and a bulk extension import tool.
trixbox Pro, a commercial offering, is designed for modern workplaces where companies have a mix of office, roaming and home-based workers. It supports both VoIP calling and traditional phone lines, and a patented hybrid-hosted architecture allows employee identity to be maintained whether they are working at the office, at home or traveling.
About Fonality
Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5,000 companies and 100,000 end users in 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management? Hybrid-Hosted? architecture, plus an improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base which has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. PBXtra and trixbox Pro deliver the advanced capabilities of an enterprise-class phone system for 40 to 80 percent less than traditional offerings. Fonality's fully free and open source telephony platform, trixbox CE (www.trixbox.org), is home to one of the world's largest and fastest growing communities of open source telephony users, with over 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality headquarters are in Los Angeles and company investors include Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.
Fonality, PBXtra, trixbox, and HUD are registered trademarks and Hybrid-Hosted and Anywhere Management are trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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CONTACT:
Kerry Garrison
trixbox Community Director
Fonality Inc.
(310) 861-4300 x7036
kgarrison@fonality.com
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trixbox.com Press Releases: Fonality Records 15 Quarters of High Growth, Leads Open Source Telephony Market
Fonality®, the leading provider of open source business communications systems, announced today that the first quarter of 2008 marked its fifteenth consecutive quarter of high growth, and that the company has doubled in size each year since its founding in 2004. Key to the company’s success is a reinvention of the architecture and delivery of the modern day business phone system. Today, 5,000 commercial customers worldwide depend on Fonality’s PBXtra® and trixbox Pro® products for affordable, VoIP-powered unified communications. In addition, Fonality’s open source project, trixbox CE, has achieved three million downloads and is now the number one open source telephony project in the world.
“We’ve at least doubled in size every year since we started Fonality in 2004,” said Chris Lyman, Fonality CEO. “We’ve done this by staying focused on our bread and butter: making telephony affordable, easy to use and standards-based. This is in stark contrast to an industry that seems fixated on keeping telephony expensive, complicated, and proprietary, a trend that continues to create enormous growth opportunities for Fonality in a $20 billion dollar global market.”
“Telephony becoming a component of a complete unified communications solution is causing a landscape evolution and giving rise to a number of new products and companies that hold significant growth potential,” says Frost & Sullivan Industry Analyst Krithi Rao.
Fonality has rebuilt the business phone system from the ground up with the goal of creating a low-cost product that is easy for a small or medium-sized business to install and manage. Adoption of Fonality products has come from companies wanting a modern, feature-rich alternative to costly systems from companies like Avaya and Cisco, and one that will grow with them and not need replacing or upgrading on regular intervals.
Fonality’s patented hybrid-hosted architecture, call center applications, as well as a rich set of unified communication applications, have helped fuel the company’s success. A hybrid-hosted approach combines the benefits of a hardware PBX with the affordability and ease of use of a hosted offering. It also enables a variety of fixed-mobile convergence capabilities that allow employee identity to be maintained whether they are working at the office, at home or traveling. The award-winning HUD® application works with the core system and provides a unified view of chat, email, and calling for all fixed and mobile workers.
Fonality has created a powerful distribution channel comprised of computer consultants, VARs and OEMs. Today, more than 7,000 data VARs have signed onto the Fonality reseller program. The company also formed a strategic partnership with Dell and a distribution agreement with PC Mall.
Fonality now has 130 employees, with offices in five countries, and operates five global data centers. In addition to standard phone systems, the company has more than 1,300 Fonality-powered call centers and 125,000 active unified communications desktops.
“We have created an entirely new category of business communications — the small business call center,” added Lyman. “We realized early on that ‘call center’ doesn’t just mean 1,000 agents in cubicles. If you have 15 employees with three sales and three support guys, you’ve got a call center. We make call center software cost effective and easy enough for this market to quickly adopt.”
About Fonality
Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5,000 companies and 100,000 end users in 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management™ Hybrid-Hosted™ architecture, plus an improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base which has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. PBXtra and trixbox Pro deliver the advanced capabilities of an enterprise-class phone system for 40 to 80 percent less than traditional offerings. Fonality's fully free and open source telephony platform, trixbox CE (www.trixbox.org), is home to one of the world's largest and fastest growing communities of open source telephony users, with over 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality headquarters are in Los Angeles. Company investors include Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.
Fonality, PBXtra, trixbox, and HUD are registered trademarks and Hybrid-Hosted and Anywhere Management are trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.
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