Fonality Challenges Telephony Giants With Latest Open Source IP-PBX.

Releases Enterprise-Class PBXtra Professional Edition and HUD Team Solution

LOS ANGELES -- Fonality([R]), a leader in open source, Asterisk([R])-based IP telephony systems, today announced the release of its new PBXtra[TM] Professional Edition IP-PBX and HUD (Heads-Up Display) Team application. Together, these award winning products challenge mainstream PBX leaders and allow Fonality to compete in the middle market at 40 percent to 80 percent less cost. The solution creates a scalable platform for the 50 to 500 seat market, including rich branch office support. Over the past two years, Fonality's products have gathered strong support from more than 1,300 customers and 18,000 users placing more than 40 million calls.

"The PBX giants have a major problem. They pay their channel a larger commission than we sell our entire solution for. To make their headache worse, we have feature parity with them for often half the price," said Chris Lyman, Fonality's founder and CEO. "We are the leaders in this open source telephony revolution for three reasons: reliability, reliability and reliability."

PBXtra, Fonality's enterprise-class IP-PBX, is based on a modified version of the popular open source Asterisk([R]) code base. Fonality has modified Asterisk([R]) to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. PBXtra is less expensive and easier to deploy than all other major PBX offerings on the market today. The price advantage comes from Fonality's use of Asterisk([R])-based open source technology to deliver the PBX foundation. The advanced, enterprise-class features and management ease come from Fonality's innovative PBXtra application with its intuitive, web-based interface designed for the average business owner. In addition, PBXtra's hybrid model that combines public telephone and VoIP network support, and Fonality's experienced 24x7 technical support team delivers rock solid reliability to all customers.

The new releases of PBXtra Professional Edition and HUD Team provide companies with 50 to 500 employees with the more advanced capabilities they need. PBXtra Professional Edition includes all the features in PBXtra Standard Edition such as telecommuting, branch office support, voicemail-to-email, click-to-call, VoIP, softphones and support for IP and analog phones. In addition, PBXtra Professional Edition adds more advanced call management capabilities including the ability to build groups of employees and assign them permissions, zone paging, zone intercom across the Aastra and Polycom phone lines, NPA/NXX call routing and unlimited party conference bridge.

HUD Team, Fonality's new universal contact management application, provides company-wide visibility and interaction with every employee from the desktop and includes secure enterprise chat, cell phone integration and employee presence management. The software supports Windows and Mac desktops and provides companies with extremely high value.

PBXtra Professional Edition and HUD Team are available immediately direct from Fonality or through a Fonality reseller. Pricing for PBXtra Professional Edition is $1,995 and HUD Team is $995 for unlimited seat licenses. For more information about PBXtra, HUD or becoming a Fonality reseller, visit www.fonality.com.

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source, Asterisk([R])-based IP telephony systems. PBXtra, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX product line for small and medium businesses, is based on a modified version of the popular open source Asterisk([R]) code base. Fonality has modified Asterisk([R]) to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features, and is the world's largest commercial Asterisk([R])-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 percent to 80 percent less than traditional offerings, and is deployed to more than 18,000 business users in the U.S. and other countries. Fonality's trixbox, www.trixbox.org, the world's largest community of users of Asterisk([R])-based software, with an average of 45,000 downloads a month, provides a free, easy to install Asterisk([R])-based VoIP phone system.

Fonality and trixbox are registered trademarks and PBXtra is a trademark of Fonality. Asterisk([R]) is a registered trademark of Digium([R]), Inc. Fonality and PBXtra are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Digium([R]) Inc.