Fonality Introduces HUD 3.0 Unified Communications Platform for trixbox CE

World’s Largest Open Source Telephony Project to Benefit from Improved Productivity, Presence Management and Detection

LOS ANGELES — Fonality®, a leading provider of open source unified communication systems for businesses, today announced it is now providing the market leading HUD 3.0 unified communications software to the trixbox Community Edition (CE) platform. The new HUD 3.0 will provide trixbox CE users with presence management and detection in a single interface for all types of office communications, including SMS, instant message, landline calling, mobile calling, chat, voicemail, email, conferencing, recording, and barging.

“Open source rarely lacks in features, but often lacks in ease-of-use and polish. Our intention with this announcement is to bring the polish of the HUD 3.0 unified communications platform, which is in use by more than 100,000 paid users, to the trixbox community. This should allow them, now more than ever, to compete with the high-prices of the big-iron oligopoly,” said Chris Lyman, CEO of Fonality.

trixbox CE is the world’s largest free and open source telephony project with more than three million downloads and 200,000 live deployments. The project is growing at a rate of 125,000 new downloads each month. The trixbox community is the largest and most active community in the open source telephony and Asterisk markets. Community members work together every day to help answer each other’s questions, resolve issues, fix bugs, make enhancements, and develop projects.

HUD 3.0 is a unified communications platform for small and medium-sized businesses that allows employees to work seamlessly together whether at the office, home or on the road. With HUD 3.0, trixbox CE users now have a secure and affordable way to support remote and home-based workers, and save workers time by tying together the many communications channels that have become a routine part of workplace communications.

Built on the market proven HUD platform, HUD 3.0 for trixbox CE delivers a unified communications dashboard that shows availability for onsite and remote employees, eliminating wasted time created by busy signals, voice mails and phone tag. Users can easily drag and drop calls onto a colleague’s desk or mobile phone, quickly convert IM chats to voice calls, and even personalize calls with photo caller ID.

The new capabilities of multi-lingual HUD 3.0 include:

• Integration with Google Talk from any desktop, BlackBerry, or iPhone. Users will now be able to chat and exchange presence with any of Google’s more than five million Google Talk users.
• Deep and instantaneous Web 2.0 integration with all applications such as CRM, Google, ticketing, billing, and financial systems. Web pages can either actively launch upon call activity or send silent (background http) notifications to web-based applications.
• Mobile presence displays mobile users to the rest of the company when they connect to the trixbox CE phone system. Mobile presence also supports Busy-Ring Back™ so as not to disturb a fellow employee who is on a mobile device.
• Personalized photo caller-ID displays photos of all inbound and outbound callers, and displays caller photos when listening to voicemail or joining a conference bridge.
• SMS one-way text messaging is now included, in addition to the already supported one-click call, mobile call, voicemail, email, and chat.
• Visual conferencing for the easy creation and recording of conferences. Drag users in, kick, and mute all with a single click. Each conference bridge participant has a face photo displayed, which makes it easier to talk to them, see them, and communicate with them using HUD 3.0 built-in instant messaging.
• Visual voice mail allows users to receive voicemail directly on their PC or Mac desktop. A MWI (message waiting indicator) provides notification when a new voicemail has arrived and, with a few simple clicks of the mouse, messages can be played, fast-forwarded, rewound, or saved to disk. Also, voicemail contacts can be easily added to Outlook, and users can click to return calls, or click to chat.
• HUD Queues take trixbox CE and HUD 3.0 into larger call centers without the typical associated costs. HUD 3.0 now supports big call center features such as real-time queue displays, up-to-the-second queue stats including ASA, dragging-and-dropping any holding queue call to an agent, call center alarms, abandon alerts, broadcast agent messaging, virtual wall boards, and much more.
• Seven languages at launch including English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Russian, and simplified and traditional Chinese.

HUD 3.0 for trixbox CE will be available in October. For information about updates and availability, join the HUD mailing list at www.trixbox.org

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by more than 5,000 companies and 125,000 end users in more than 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 350,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox® Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management™ Hybrid-Hosted™ architecture, and 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 more than 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality’s headquarters are in Los Angeles with additional offices in Australia and Argentina. Company investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund, Intel Capital, and Azure Capital Partners.