College Housing Provider Saves $100,000+ with Fonality PBXtra; IP-PBX Handles 12,000 Monthly Calls, No Downtime.

LOS ANGELES -- Fonality, the leader in affordable IP-PBX phone systems for small and medium businesses and the world's largest distributed deployment of Asterisk(TM), today announced that its PBXtra IP-PBX has been deployed by The Upperclassman II to provide phone service to 158 college apartments and 300 students in the company's facility located in Bluefield, W.Va. PBXtra routinely handles 12,000 calls monthly, with peak call volumes of 59,000 minutes, and has been in continuous operation, 24x7, for more than 16 months without a minute of downtime. The Upperclassman selected PBXtra because of its low price, expansion capabilities, high quality and ability to routinely handle high call volumes. The total cost of The Upperclassman's PBXtra phone system, including all 165 phones, was less than $38,000. Comparable systems from other vendors cost between $80,000 and $100,000 more.

"College students like to talk on the phone and their call volumes are typically three times larger than the same size corporate office environment, which in this case means more than 12,000 calls per month. I knew I needed to be absolutely sure our new phone system could handle high call volumes," said Roger Workman, director of business development, The Upperclassman II. "Fonality saved us more than $100,000 and has provided us with outstanding service and support. For me, the question isn't will we deploy another Fonality system; rather, I can't wait to order another one!"

The Upperclassman's PBXtra system was deployed in less than two months, from initial order to full high-volume deployment. This was achieved with only minor modifications and adjustments to the system. The Bluefield-based facility operates a single voice and data network that combines low-cost voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calls and high-speed Internet access, eliminating the need for different data and voice networks.

Fonality's PBXtra product line provides SMBs with enterprise-class phone systems for 40 percent to 80 percent less than the cost of traditional PBX systems. PBXtra's enterprise-class features include telecommuting, branch office support, voicemail-to-email, click-to-call, VoIP, softphones, support for IP and analog phones, and advanced call center functionality. Fonality has streamlined and simplified the complex tasks of PBX setup, administration and management to make PBXtra the world's first enterprise-class phone system that can be installed and administered remotely using a Web browser, without specialized training.

PBXtra software runs on standard PC hardware, and uses layers of Open Source Linux and Asterisk software to provide the least expensive option for SMBs deploying IP-PBX phone systems. Unlike most alternative Asterisk-based PBX offerings, PBXtra is much more than a simple front-end designed to make it easier for Linux and Asterisk experts to install and manage Asterisk.

PBXtra is available direct from Fonality or through a Fonality reseller. Pricing starts at $995 for the PBXtra Standard Edition server with unlimited licenses, or $2,935 with ten phones. PBXtra's Call Center Edition, which allows for distributed call centers, is $1,995. For more information about PBXtra or becoming a Fonality reseller, visit www.fonality.com.

About Fonality

Fonality is the leading provider of affordable IP-PBX systems for SMBs. PBXtra Standard Edition delivers all the advanced features of an enterprise-class phone system at an affordable price and is so easy to use that it eliminates expensive phone support and configuration costs. PBXtra Call Center Edition provides businesses with call center functionality in addition to the PBX capabilities found in Standard Edition. PBXtra is deployed to 10,000 business users in the U.S. and other countries. Fonality's products are available direct and through a network of more than 1,700 resellers.