trixbox Pro Delivers First Fully Automated Phone Provisioning – Look Mom, No Hands!

New Release of trixbox 2.0 Packed with Features Specifically for Resellers

Los Angeles, CA – Fonality®, the leading open source phone systems provider, today announced the release of trixbox® Pro 2.0, a major new release created specifically for resellers participating in the fast-growing open source telephony market. trixbox Pro 2.0 incorporates new features for greater flexibility in setting up and managing trixbox deployments, as well as new compatibility with telecom standards outside of the United States.

Since its release last year, trixbox has filled the hole in the market for an IP-PBX with a feature set and price point optimized for companies with 20 to 200 seats. The price-to-feature ratio of trixbox Pro, coupled with its ease of deployment, has created a groundswell of reseller conversion from established players such as Cisco and Avaya.

trixbox Pro delivers the first standards-based, 100 percent hands-free phone provisioning of any IP-PBX product, significantly cutting the time required to set up a new phone system. Other vendors claim auto-phone provisioning but they all require keypad input for each new phone, vastly slowing the deployment time of the system. trixbox Pro, however, instantly recognizes Polycom and Aastra phones, and automatically adds them into both the phone system and HUD®, the employee dashboard that unifies company-wide phone calls, voice mail, presence indicators and instant messaging.

“Resellers live and die by two things: margin and the time spent on site. trixbox Pro offers 50 percent margins and our hands-free provisioning reduces or eliminates on-site visits,” said Fonality CEO Chris Lyman. “We continue to lead the open source telephony market by introducing innovative and time saving features.”

trixbox Pro also brings strong support for international telecom markets. According to consultancy firm MZA, uptake among small and medium-sized businesses drove the number of IP PBX desktop extensions installed in the United Kingdom to 40 percent of all installations in the fourth quarter of 2007. To support the growing European market opportunity, trixbox Pro now includes BRI support, an ISDN configuration standard in many European countries. New support for E1 circuits also delivers deeper compatibility with European standards. Country-specific configuration support has been added so administrators can set a server to the host country in which it’s located, and trixbox Pro will automatically set the relevant telecom settings.

Also added for resellers is a consolidated interface that allows resellers to manage all of their trixbox Pro customers from a single web-based administration interface, with hot switching between deployments. A new network card configuration option allows you to manage the IP address on a remote trixbox Pro system. There is also a new interface for custom configuration of analog and PRI and T1 cards. New alerts are also available so resellers can receive email to text messages when issues arise with a PRI, RAID disk, analog line voltage, and a host of other indicators.

trixbox Pro now 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 automatically observes a person’s keyboard and mouse activity and routes calls to their mobile phone or another number when they are inactive on their computer. FONcall® is a new plug-in for the Firefox web browser and is the first one-click dialing application for business telephony. By clicking the link, trixbox Pro will automatically take an Aastra or Polycom phone off the hook and dial out to the number hands-free. New branch office integration merges spell-by-name directories, allowing callers to dial into one branch and find an employee at any other branch anywhere in the world.

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, Brazil and Australia. Company investors include Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.

Fonality, PBXtra, trixbox, HUD, FindMe, Boomerang and Anywhere Management are registered trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.