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Fonality's trixbox Appliance Captures 2007 TMC Labs Innovation AwardLOS ANGELES --(Business Wire)-- Fonality(R), a leading open source telephony company, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) named the trixbox Appliance a 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award winner. Created for trixbox and Asterisk resellers, as well as IT professionals, the trixbox Appliance is an enterprise class telephony appliance based on trixbox(R), the Asterisk(R)-based platform that has become synonymous with open source telephony and home to the largest Asterisk-based community. The trixbox Appliance comes pre-loaded, tested, and configured with the latest version of trixbox and gives users the highest quality phone calls with VoIP, digital, and analog connectivity options. The Appliance requires minimal set-up and provides resellers with a quick and easy hardware solution to begin rapidly building phone systems. The trixbox Appliance costs $999 and comes standard with two 80 GB hard drives and a Pentium 4 CPU -- delivering the industry's best price performance value for a PBX. The trixbox Appliance scales well beyond what most other Asterisk-based appliances can support. In addition to standard dual RAID disks in every box, the Appliance also includes an option to upgrade to dual power supplies and capacity for up to 48 analog lines. The Appliance is aimed at businesses with five to 500 employees and can be purchased for use with analog, VoIP, or E1/T1. "The trixbox Appliance really alters the Asterisk landscape," Fonality CEO Chris Lyman said. "For under $1000 bucks, this Appliance rack-mounts, has dual hard-disks and all the PBX software you need pre-loaded. Folks can stop building boxes and start selling them." The trixbox Appliance offers customers the choice of several different user interface options, and also includes the Fonality-sponsored trixbox dashboard, making it easy to configure extensions and phones. "The trixbox Appliance is clearly deserving of recognition in the VoIP sector of the IP Communications industry. We're proud to reward Fonality's hard work with a TMC Labs Innovation Award this year," said TMC President Rich Tehrani. According to Tom Keating, CTO and TMC Labs Editorial Director at TMC, "The Innovation Awards exemplify the best and the most unique products and services that this industry has to offer. Fonality has demonstrated a commitment to quality, and a commitment to the further development of the IP communications industry through the trixbox Appliance. Fonality deserves this great honor, and I look forward to seeing other innovative solutions from them as they continue to contribute to the future of IP communications." The TMC Labs Innovation Awards honor products that demonstrate raw innovation, unique features, and significant contributions toward improving communications technology. The TMC Labs Innovation Awards are not granted only to the best-selling products, but instead to those demonstrating raw innovation, uniqueness, and representing a significant contribution to the industry. 2007 TMC Labs Innovation Award winners can be found in the July and August 2007 issues of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine. About trixbox trixbox, formerly Asterisk@Home, is one of the world's largest communities of users of open source, Asterisk-based VoIP telephony platforms. In less than 15 minutes a non-technical user can download and install Asterisk, Linux, SugarCRM, MySQL, FreePBX, HUDlite and several additional applications. trixbox tightly integrates these open applications to work together on one physical server, providing companies with a PBX phone system and the surrounding applications needed to support their business. The trixbox community has the largest number of registered users and the most active forums for discussing and resolving open source telephony and Asterisk-based issues. About Fonality Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source, Asterisk(R)-based IP telephony systems. PBXtra, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX product line for small and medium-sized businesses, includes a modified version of the popular open source Asterisk code base. Fonality has modified Asterisk to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features, and is the world's largest commercial Asterisk-based deployment. PBXtra uses Fonality's patent pending architecture to deliver all the advanced features of an enterprise-class phone system and call center at 40 to 80 percent less than traditional offerings, and is deployed at more than 2,000 companies around the world. Fonality's trixbox, www.trixbox.org, the world's largest and fastest growing community of users of Asterisk-based software with an average of 75,000 downloads a month, provides a free, easy to install Asterisk-based VoIP phone system. About INTERNET TELPHONY magazine Since the first issue in February of 1998, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine has been providing experience and unbiased views of the complicated converged communications space. INTERNET TELEPHONY offers its audience of decision-makers rich content from solutions-focused editorial content to reviews on products and services from TMC Labs. About TMC Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Inter@ction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, IMS Magazine and Unified Communications (launching summer 2007). TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 0.004 percent of sites in the world by alexa.com(1), TMCnet serves nearly two million unique visitors each month, according to WebTrends. 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, Call Center 2.0 Conference and the Green Technology World Conference, coming in September 2007. TMCnet.com publishes more than 15 topical online newsletters. ((1)alexa.com is an amazon.com company that ranks Web sites by their traffic levels. Neither alexa.com nor amazon.com is affiliated with TMCnet.) 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