Fonality trixbox Pro with HUD Takes Home 2007 Communication Solutions Product of the Year Award

trixbox Pro recognized for innovation and scalability

Los Angeles, CA – Fonality®, the leading provider of open source business communications systems, announced today that Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC) Communications Solutions has named trixbox® Pro with HUD® as a recipient of a 2007 Product of the Year Award.

“trixbox Pro with HUD gives IT consultants and data resellers the perfect solution to create fully managed, feature-rich business phone systems for their SMB customers,” said Arnold Waldstein, Fonality senior vice president of marketing. “This honor from Communications Solutions recognizes Fonality’s commitment to building a highly scalable and affordable business phone system with powerful unified communications capabilities via HUD.”

trixbox Pro has all the enhanced end user features available in Fonality’s turnkey offering PBXtra® 4.0. FindMe® with Boomerang® Mobile Integration uses presence detection to automatically find employees on their mobile devices, allowing them to answer the call or bounce it to another extension. It allows employees to decide when and how they will be found according to their personal schedule and rules. trixbox Pro with HUD is a hybrid-hosted phone system, which means the software is downloaded and installed on a local computer that connects to the Fonality network where server health, call quality and usage are constantly monitored. The hybrid-hosted architecture of trixbox Pro with HUD also allows resellers to proactively monitor the health of their customer systems and handle a wide variety of remote configuration tasks.

HUD changes the way employees work in the office, at home, and on the road. HUD matches inbound caller ID to Outlook contacts, and allows employees to find contacts quickly and effortlessly, view their status, and initiate communication with a single click. From phone calls to chat to e-mails, HUD reduces time spent in meetings by enabling effective communication, and offers powerful integration with web-based CRM systems.

“Fonality has been recognized with a 2007 Product of the Year Award for its excellence in the advancement of voice and data communications,” said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions. “Fonality has proven it is committed to quality and excellence in solutions that benefit the customer experience as well as ROI for the companies that use trixbox Pro. I am pleased to honor Fonality’s hard work and accomplishments and look forward to more innovative solutions from the company in the future.”

The eighth annual Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award recognizes the vision, leadership and attention to detail that are the hallmarks of the prestigious award. The most innovative products and services brought to market in 2007 were selected as recipients of this year’s Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award for their groundbreaking achievement.

The 2007 Product of the Year Award winners can be found on the Communications Solutions Web site.

For a complete list of features and more information please visit www.trixbox.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 the company has offices in the UK, Argentina and Australia. Company investors include Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.

Fonality, PBXtra, HUD and trixbox are registered trademarks and Anywhere Management and Hybrid-Hosted are trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

About TMC
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) is an integrated global media company helping our clients build communities in print, in-person and online. TMC publishes Customer Interaction Solutions, INTERNET TELEPHONY, Unified Communications, and IMS Magazine. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs. TMCnet, TMC's Web site, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMCnet is read by nearly one million US visitors according to Quantcast* and by over three million unique visitors each month worldwide, according to Webtrends In addition, TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO, Call Center 2.0 Conference and Communications Developer Conference.