LOS ANGELES – March 1, 2007 – Fonality®, the leader in open source IP telephony, announced today that it is the first IP telephony company to join the MSPAlliance, a global organization for managed service providers (MSP). Fonality’s award-winning PBXtra™ business phone system gives MSPs a voice offering to complement their existing IT and data services, allowing them to offer a complete data and voice solution to small and medium-sized businesses.
“Our unique hybrid-hosted model gives service providers a standards-based SIP solution that can be fully managed from a centralized Web management interface, and requires no new hardware or software,” said Chris Vuillaume, vice president of business development and channels for Fonality. “We are redefining the landscape for providers and giving them a low-risk option for moving into telephony and tapping the ballooning opportunity for VoIP services.”
Fonality’s Managed Services Program targets both telecom and IT/data service providers, and addresses the growing demand for managed turnkey solutions in the small and medium-sized business market. PBXtra’s hybrid-hosted architecture allows for easy integration into current managed service models while providing enterprise class IP PBX features and a low total cost of ownership. Fonality’s three-tier program scales easily depending on the goals and operational capabilities of the MSP, and PBXtra integrates into their infrastructure with no impact on existing network components.
Fonality is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, March 13 at 9 a.m. PDT for service providers interested in learning more about the Fonality Managed Services Program. Fonality’s Dave Roy, director of managed services, and Corey Brundage, director of product management, will demonstrate Fonality’s award-winning PBXtra business phone system, explain how the Fonality Managed Services Program works, and discuss how service providers can benefit from becoming a certified Fonality partner.
Fonality’s PBXtra business phone system delivers more functionality with significantly improved ease-of-use at 40 to 80 percent of the cost of comparable systems from established PBX vendors. Out of the box, PBXtra supports advanced auto-attendant features, telecommuters, branch offices, drag and drop call controls, conferencing and cross-office intercoms, as well as a host of other easy-to-use advanced features. Fonality and its partners provide 24/7 technical support and a patent-pending hybrid-hosted architecture ensures reliability by allowing real-time monitoring and remote system management.
The MSPAlliance is a global organization made up of more than 350 worldwide service providers and technology vendors committed to creating awareness for the value and benefit of using MSPs.
For more information about the Fonality Managed Services Program, or to sign up for the webinar, please visit www.fonality.com/webinar.
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 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, the world's largest and fastest growing community of users of Asterisk-based software with an average of 75,000 downloads a month, provides a free, easy to install Asterisk-based VoIP phone system.
