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Fonality Launches the trixbox Asterisk-Based ApplianceSAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Fonality(R), a leading open source telephony company, today announced a new enterprise telephony appliance based on trixbox(R), a leading Asterisk-based IP-PBX, and a range of complementary professional support options. The trixbox Appliance comes pre-installed with the trixbox software platform and is an industrial grade rack-mountable server with dual hard disk and dual power supply redundancy options. It is aimed at businesses with five to 500 employees and can be purchased for use with VoIP, E1/T1 or up to 48 analog lines. Created for trixbox and Asterisk resellers, as well as IT professionals, the trixbox Appliance costs $999 and delivers the industry's best price performance value for a PBX. The trixbox Appliance is powered by Intel and comes with pre-configured Sangoma line cards with industry-leading Octasic echo-cancellation hardware inside. Broad support for the appliance has been announced by a growing trixbox ecosystem that includes phone manufacturers Polycom, Aastra, and Grandstream, as well as VoIP service providers VoicePulse and Teliax. "We are excited about the new Intel-based trixbox Appliance, which combines an innovative SME offering with Polycom's line of standards-based high quality IP phones," said Sunil Bhalla, senior vice president and general manager of voice communications at Polycom. "The open source telephony market is proving to be very viable and Fonality's appliance should be a great addition because of its feature set and flexibility." The trixbox Appliance includes trixbox 2.2, a new release of the popular distribution that integrates Asterisk with Apache, MySQL, SugarCRM and PHP. Included in this release is the new open source Asterisk GUI (graphical user interface), a component of the AsteriskNow(TM) distribution, which gives customers an additional trixbox GUI option. In addition to delivering an appliance, Fonality is offering professional support options to ensure that a reliable trixbox engineer is always just a phone call away. A new suite of comprehensive technical support packages can be purchased on an annual basis for a complete deployment, or in hourly increments for ad hoc support. "The trixbox Appliance, built on Intel-based servers, is another proof point that open source telephony solutions can deliver full-featured yet very affordable solutions to the global mid-market," said Lisa Lambert, managing director, Software and Solutions Group, Intel Capital. "Fonality's investment in trixbox should provide the opportunity for the company to grow their market position and leadership." "While Fonality has long offered its own PBXtra(TM) appliance, we felt the trixbox community also needed a reliable hardware appliance to run their trixbox software. Price pressure is forcing do-it-yourselfers to put together systems based on mediocre hardware not meant for the rigors of a busy phone system," said Chris Lyman, Fonality CEO. "Our goal was to create a box that had enterprise performance, but still came in at under $1,000 bucks." For more information about the trixbox Appliance, trixbox 2.2 and trixbox support options, please visit www.trixbox.org. 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-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, HUD and trixbox are registered trademarks and PBXtra is a trademark of Fonality. Asterisk is a registered trademark and AsteriskNow(TM) is a trademark of Digium, Inc. Fonality, trixbox and PBXtra are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Digium Inc. |
