NORWALK, CT– Sept. 5, 2007 – Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), world leaders in communications and technology media, and Fonality (News - Alert), a maker of business phone systems, announced today that Fonality’s trixbox Open Communications Certification (FtOCC) Course, to be held at TMC’s INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO (ITEXPO (News - Alert)) in Los Angeles, has completely sold out.


The three-day FtOCC Technician course runs concurrently with ITEXPO, to be held Sept. 10-12, 2007 in Los Angeles. FtOCC Technician is a three-day technical certification course designed to train resellers and consultants to support their clients running trixbox CE, trixbox Pro, and PBXtra systems.

“trixbox, already a driving force in the telephony market, is gaining more and more traction among resellers every day. They see tremendous opportunity to quickly take advantage of the rapidly expanding market opportunity for IP-PBX products and VoIP services,” said Michael Genaro (News - Alert), vice president of marketing at TMC. “Clearly, the sold out status of this course at ITEXPO proves that to be true.”

“The open telephony world has begun to make serious money off of the trixbox platform,” said Chris Lyman, CEO of Fonality. “Telephony experts and system integrators alike have recognized this and are now investing in their education. Selling out our fifth consecutive FtOCC Technician is a testament to this movement. And, since these courses now benefit anyone interested in Asterisk (News - Alert), they appeal to an even broader audience than ever!"

For more information on trixbox, go to www.trixbox.org. To enroll in FtOCC Technician for a later date and see the upcoming scheduled courses, visit www.learntrixbox.com.

Visit www.itexpo.com for more information or to register for INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO in Los Angeles.

About TMC (News - Alert)

Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) publishes four print publications: Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications and IMS Magazine. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. Ranked in the top 4,000 sites in the world by alexa.com*, TMCnet serves 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. TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Communications Developer Conference, and Call Center 2.0 Conference. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.

(*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.)

About trixbox

trixbox is the world's largest Asterisk-based community and open source voice over IP telephony platform.The value of trixbox is that, in under an hour, a non-technical user can download and install, not only Asterisk, but Linux, SugarCRM, MySQL, FreePBX and other 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 they need 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-specific issues.

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source, Asterisk-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 PBXtra 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, one of the world's largest and fastest growing communities of users of Asterisk-based software with an average of 65,000 downloads a month, provides a free, easy to install Asterisk-based VoIP phone system.

Fonality, PBXtra, HUD and trixbox are registered trademarks and trixNet is a trademark of Fonality. Asterisk is a registered trademark of Digium, Inc. Fonality, trixbox, PBXtra and trixNet are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Digium Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

TMC Contact:

Mostafa Razzak

JMR Worldwide

646.442.3361

 

Sparkpr for Fonality

Alicia diVittorio

415-321-1875

[email protected]