Fonality Hosts Boston-Based trixbox Training & Certification Workshop For Asterisk Resellers & IT Professionals
June 3-6 Workshop Gives East Coast and European trixboxers
Hands-On trixbox Training
LOS ANGELES – April 19, 2007 – Fonality®, a leading open source telephony company, today announced the second Fonality trixbox® Open Communications Certification (FtOCC, pronounced “F-talk”) workshop at the Hyatt Regency Boston from June 3-6, 2007. FtOCC is a training and certification course designed around the Asterisk®-based trixbox platform, which has become synonymous with open source telephony and home to the largest Asterisk-based community. FtOCC workshops give trixbox and Asterisk resellers, as well as IT professionals, all of the tools and knowledge necessary to implement trixbox successfully in a business environment.
The first FtOCC workshop, held in March 2007, was a huge success as a sold-out crowd of VARs, system integrators and telephony professionals met in Los Angeles to deepen their skills and collaborate with peers from around the world. The Boston workshop, expanded to three intense days of courses from the original two days, will draw predominantly from the East Coast and European reseller communities.
The course will include extensive instruction on trixbox 2.2, the latest version of the Asterisk-based telephony platform. The course also includes a special session covering installation, implementation and maintenance of the new trixbox appliance. Additionally, the three-day workshop will focus on all of the most pressing topics for trixbox users, including, but not limited to: VoIP, PBX development, network assessment, telephony troubleshooting, T1/PRI training and IP handset education. Andrew Gillis, trixbox project founder, and Kerry Garrison, senior product manager for trixbox at Fonality and author of “trixbox Made Easy,” will co-host the course alongside other members of the trixbox engineering team.
“Every day, trixbox resellers and integrators are building business phone systems for hundreds of customers worldwide,” said Andrew Gillis, trixbox project founder. “The trixbox community has requested certification, paid support and the trixbox Appliance, and we are now delivering these tools. They are enabling our professional community to provide the best systems available based on the trixbox application.”
Respected partners in the telephony and VoIP industry will once again participate to provide information and free equipment to attendees.
For more information on registration for FtOCC, or to download trixbox 2.0 for free, visit www.trixbox.org/ftocc.
WHAT: Fonality trixbox Open Communications Certification (FtOCC)
WHEN: June 3 – 6, 2007
WHERE: Hyatt Regency Boston, One Avenue de Lafayette, Boston, MA 02111
COST: $1,999 includes training for three days, breakfast and lunch each day, dinner on Monday, FtOCC polo, trixbox shirt and cap, plus lots of other giveaways.
NOTE: Attendance is limited to 60 people and registration is on a first come, first served basis.
For registration, visit www.ftocc.eventbrite.com.
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, HUD and trixbox are registered trademarks and PBXtra is a trademark of Fonality. Asterisk is a registered trademark of Digium, Inc. Fonality, trixbox and PBXtra are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Digium Inc.
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