“HUD is clearly deserving of recognition for its out-of-box innovation helping to transform the unified communications industry. We’re proud to reward Fonality for its hard work with a Unified Communications’ TMC Labs Innovation Award,” said TMC President Rich Tehrani.

The latest version of HUD features Fonality’s unique presence-detection system, dubbed FindMe^® with Boomerang^® Mobile Integration. FindMe detects employee keyboard and mouse movements and makes call routing decisions according to where the system detects the individual’s presence. Once calls have arrived to mobile devices, calls can be recorded on the mobile device or even “boomeranged” back to the office switch.

“HUD is changing the way people work,” said Chris Lyman, Fonality CEO. “With a single click HUD workers are connected via desk phone, mobile phone, chat, email, or voicemail. We already have 100,000 users on HUD whose lives are being made easier by unified communications every day.”

“Fonality has demonstrated a commitment to quality, and a commitment to the further development of the unified communications industry through PBXtra with HUD,” said Tom Keating, CTO and TMC Labs Editorial Director at TMC. “Fonality deserves this great honor, and I look forward to seeing other innovative solutions from them as they continue to contribute to the future of unified communications industry.”

The TMC Labs Innovation Awards honor products that demonstrate raw innovation, unique features, and significant contributions toward improving communications technology. The TMC Labs Innovation Awards are not granted only to the best-selling products, but instead to those demonstrating a significant contribution to the industry.

Fonality business phone systems are designed for modern workplaces and allow mobile employees to participate on the PBX wherever they work, be it in the office, at home, on the road, or on a mobile device. Fonality supports both VoIP calling and traditional phone lines, allowing a smooth transition for businesses upgrading their calling services. Fonality’s patented Hybrid-HostedTM architecture allows employee identity to be maintained as employees travel between work, home, and hotel. Fonality, when paired with the award-winning HUD presence software, provides a unified view of chat, email, and calling for all fixed and mobile workers. 2008 TMC Labs Innovation Award winners can be found in the May 2008 issue of Unified Communications magazine.

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5,000 companies and 100,000 end users in 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management^™ Hybrid-Hosted architecture, plus

The review praised PBXtra as “value-laden” and credited its scalability and user-friendly interface with making it easy to install, use and maintain. Fonality’s fanatical focus on delivering the right balance of rich, accessible functionality at affordable price points has made it the IP-PBX of choice for growing businesses. More than 5,000 companies in over 100 countries are now using Fonality’s business phone systems.

“Time is money and people often overlook ease of use until after they have made their phone system purchase. This can end up being an expensive mistake,” said Fonality CEO Chris Lyman. “We work very hard to deliver a phone system that is feature-rich but installs without the complexities of open heart surgery. We’re proud that Infoworld has recognized this one-two combo.”

Fonality business phone systems are designed for modern workplaces and allow mobile employees to participate on the PBX wherever they work, be it in the office, at home, on the road, or on a mobile device. PBXtra supports both VoIP calling and traditional phone lines, allowing a smooth transition for businesses upgrading their calling services. Its patented Hybrid-Hosted^™ architecture allows employee identity to be maintained as employees travel between work, home, and hotel. PBXtra, when paired with the award-winning HUD^® presence software, provides a unified view of chat, email, and calling for all fixed and mobile workers.

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5,000 companies and 100,000 end users in 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management^™ Hybrid-Hosted architecture, plus an improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base which has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. PBXtra and trixbox Pro 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 over 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality headquarters are in Los Angeles, and the company has offices in the UK, Brazil and Australia. Company investors include Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.

Fonality, PBXtra, trixbox and HUD, are registered trademarks of Fonality. Hybrid-Hosted and Anywhere Management are trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Fonality FACE partners provide the highest quality technology and the deepest integration with Fonality’s IP-PBX VoIP phone systems, and Fonality provides support discounts and incentives to resellers and IT consultants who choose FACE-certified hardware products when building Fonality phone systems for their customers.

“A big problem in this emerging, open market is the glut of questionable hardware and non-compliant providers,” said Chris Lyman, CEO of Fonality. “This creates a confusion which leads to customers inadvertently using sub-standard components, and then paying the price for it. FACE removes any uneasiness about compliance, allowing customers to deploy phone systems with complete confidence.”

Following are comments from FACE partners about the new ecosystem:

“Aastra and Fonality are both committed to developing and implementing open standard VoIP products and systems for the needs of small and medium businesses. Our respective products have been tightly integrated to exceed our customers’ expectations for value and performance.”
— Yves Laliberte, Executive Vice President, Aastra Telecom

“Bandwidth.com is excited to participate as the Platinum network service partner in the Fonality FACE program. This certification is a testament to our commitment to Fonality and to the hundreds of mutual customers that have already benefited from a certified IP communications solution, great rates and unparalleled support all specifically tailored for the business community.”
— Henry Kaestner, CEO, Bandwidth.com.

“By supporting Polycom’s full line of SoundPoint phones, Fonality is able to deliver a reliable, turnkey solution to SMB customers on both PBXtra and trixbox. Together, we provide integrated, cutting-edge solutions that enable our customers to smoothly transition to VoIP for more streamlined, cost-effective business communications.”
— Chalan Aras, Vice President of Marketing, Polycom Voice Communications Solutions Group.

“We’re pleased to be Fonality’s partner to bring the highest quality IP-PBX systems to the SMB. Our award-winning cards combined with Fonality’s breakthrough technology guarantee reliable calls and great voice quality.”
— Dave Mandelstam, CEO, Sangoma

To find out more about Fonality’s business phone systems and for a complete list of FACE-certified components, go to http://www.trixbox.com/partners.

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5,000 companies and 100,000 end users in 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management^® hybrid-hosted^® architecture, plus an improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base which has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. PBXtra and trixbox Pro 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 over 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality headquarters are in Los Angeles, and the company has offices in the UK, Brazil and Australia. Company investors include Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.

Fonality, PBXtra, trixbox, hybrid-hosted and Anywhere Management are registered trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

“We’ve hit the 225 million call threshold and have proven that Fonality can scale with the market opportunity,” said Chris Lyman, Fonality CEO. “We are on track to serve a broad segment of the 35 million small businesses that will adopt VoIP over the next several years.”

Fonality business phone systems are designed for modern workplaces where companies have a mix of office, roaming and home-based workers. PBXtra supports both VoIP calling and traditional phone lines, allowing a smooth transition for businesses upgrading their calling services. Its patented hybrid-hosted architecture allows employee identity to be maintained as they travel between work, home, and hotel. PBXtra, when paired with the award-winning HUD^® presence software, provides a unified view of chat, email, and calling for all fixed and mobile workers.

trixbox CE, formerly Asterisk@Home, is Fonality’s open source project and one of the world’s largest communities devoted to open source telephony. trixbox CE integrates Asterisk, Linux, MySQL, FreePBX, HUDlite and several additional applications. It operates on a single server, providing companies with a PBX phone system and the surrounding applications needed 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-based issues.

About Fonality

Fonality is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5,000 companies and 100,000 end users in 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management^® hybrid-hosted architecture, plus an improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base which has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. PBXtra and trixbox Pro 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, is home to one of the world's largest and fastest growing communities of open source telephony users, with over 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality headquarters are in Los Angeles, and the company has offices in the UK, Brazil and Australia. Company investors include Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.

Fonality, PBXtra, trixbox, HUD, and Anywhere Management are registered trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

The new FindMe capability in PBXtra 4.0 ups the ante in the Find-Me-Follow-Me feature wars. Not only does it allow employees to decide when and how they will be found according to their personal schedule and rules, but FindMe also has built-in presence detection. The system observes a person’s keyboard and mouse activity and can route calls to their mobile phone or other number when they are inactive on their computer.

Boomerang Mobile Integration deepens Fonality’s commitment toward unifying the PC, the desk phone and the mobile phone. It allows calls sent to mobile phones to be boomeranged back to any extension by pressing a few keys on the mobile phone. Boomeranged calls can also be recorded from a mobile phone and automatically stored on the PBXtra server.

FONcall^® is a new PBXtra plug-in for the Firefox web browser and is the first one-click dialing application for business telephony. It turns a phone number on any site into a link. By clicking the link, PBXtra will automatically take an Aastra and Polycom phone off the hook and dial out to the number hands-free. PBXtra 4.0 also deepens branch office integration by merging spell-by-name directories, allowing callers to dial into one branch and find an employee at any other branch anywhere in the world.

PBXtra 4.0 contains significant enhancements for Fonality’s growing reseller base. A consolidated interface allows resellers to manage all of their PBXtra customers from a single Web-based administration interface, with hot switching between installations. A new network card configuration option allows for custom configuration of analog and PRI and T1 cards. New alerts are now available so resellers can receive email to text messages when issues arise with a PRI, RAID disk, analog line voltage, and a host of other indicators. Country support has also been added so administrators can set a server to the host country it is located in, and PBXtra will automatically configure the relevant telecom settings.

About PBXtra

PBXtra is designed to be an affordable phone system for the modern workplace where companies have a mix of office, roaming and home-based workers. PBXtra automatically switches back and forth between VoIP calling and traditional phone lines, optimizing cost savings and ensuring call quality. Its patented hybrid-hosted architecture allows employee identity to be maintained as they travel between work, home, and hotel. PBXtra, when paired with the award-winning HUD presence software, provides a unified view of chat, email, and calling for all fixed and mobile workers. The entire system can be installed and managed by a non-technical employee, saving companies thousands of dollars traditionally paid to the “phone guy.”

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5000 companies and 1000,000 end users in 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management^® hybrid-hosted architecture, plus an improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base that has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features and delivers 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 is home to one of the world's largest and fastest growing communities of users of Asterisk-based software, with over 175,000 live deployments and 65,000 new downloads each month. Fonality headquarters are in Los Angeles, and the company has offices in the UK, Brazil and Australia. Company investors include Azure Capital Partners, Intel Capital and Dell.

Fonality, PBXtra, HUD, FindMe with Boomerang, Anywhere Management, Hybrid Hosted, trixbox and trixNet are registered trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Over the past two years, Insightful has made substantial enhancements to SugarCRM's Sugar Professional product and hosts more than 1,000 seats in 13 countries at the company's three global data centers. By combining Insightful's CRM expertise with Fonality's awarding-winning telephony suite, small businesses will have an affordable solution that unifies employees with presence management, instant messaging, fixed and mobile calling, and provides a single 360-degree view of customers and business partners

"Fonality has over 1,000 hybrid-hosted call centers deployed in 25 different countries and our hybrid-hosted platform is a powerful framework for delivering integrated applications directly to the SMB with no investment in premise equipment required," said Chris Lyman, Fonality CEO. "Telephony and CRM have a naturally concentric relationship, so this is a good place to leverage hybrid-hosted and we are thrilled that the great folks at Insightful have joined forces with us to accelerate our unified offering to the global SMB marketplace."

Marc Englaro, co-founder and CEO of Insightful, is now general manager of Fonality's CRM Division. Before founding Insightful, Englaro was director and principal consultant with Si2, leading its open source consulting practice. He will remain in his role as director of Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA), the country's national industry body for open source adoption. The Insightful team brings valuable CRM development and marketing expertise, and all employees will continue to work for Fonality. The Insightful offices in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore will remain open.

"In Fonality we found a like-minded team which values going beyond simple integration, and building fully conjoined products that expand the definition of what's on the market today," said Englaro. "Together we're going to continue to raise the bar for what people expect from both VoIP and CRM."

About Fonality:

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in unified communications and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 6,500 companies and 60,000 end users in 97 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 155,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management^® hybrid-hosted architecture, plus an improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base that has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features and delivers 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 users of Asterisk-based software, with over 150,000 live deployments and 65,000 new downloads each month. Fonality headquarters are in Los Angeles, and the company has offices in the UK, Brazil and Australia.

Fonality, PBXtra, HUD, trixbox and trixNet are registered trademarks of Fonality. Asterisk is a registered trademark of Digium, Inc. Fonality, trixbox, PBXtra and trixNet are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Digium Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

PBXtra is a VoIP-capable phone system designed to be purchased, installed and managed by non-technical professionals. Fonality's patent-pending, hybrid-hosted technology enables seamless use of PBXtra to support branch offices, as well as mobile and home-based workers. PBXtra has garnered industry accolades including Editors' Choice by PC Magazine in a recent roundup of competing phone systems from Digium, TalkSwitch and others.

"The open telephony market is continuing to accelerate," said Chris Lyman, Fonality CEO. "Fonality is proud to be leading that charge with PBXtra and trixbox."

Fonality's PBXtra business phone system delivers more functionality with significantly improved ease of use at 40 to 80 percent less than the cost of comparable systems from larger companies. 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 the patent-pending hybrid-hosted architecture ensures reliability by allowing real-time monitoring and remote system management.

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, is widely recognized as the world's largest commercial Asterisk-based deployment with over 2,500 systems in 50 countries making over 130 million calls. PBXtra includes a hardened and improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base which has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. 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. Fonality's trixbox^ˊ www.trixbox.org, is home to trixbox CE, trixbox Pro and 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.

Fonality, PBXtra, HUD, trixbox and trixNet are registered trademarks of Fonality. Asterisk is a registered trademark of Digium, Inc. Fonality, trixbox, PBXtra and trixNet are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Digium Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

PC Magazine praised PBXtra for its ease of use over competing products such as TalkSwitch's 244vs and Digium's Asterisk Appliance. According to the review, "Fonality's PBXtra Standard, a PBX solution with all the basic features that a small or medium-size business needs, offers a number of unique features that simplify management, and a well-designed Web interface elegantly ties its many features together." Of all of the products reviewed, PBXtra earned the highest rating.

"A PC Magazine Editors' Choice is about as good as it gets when it comes to reviews," said Fonality CEO Chris Lyman. "PC Magazine took special note of our patented hybrid-hosted architecture which is what has allowed us to gain such rapid direct adoption into the SMB."

Fonality's PBXtra business phone system delivers more functionality with significantly improved ease-of-use at 40 to 80 percent less than the cost of comparable systems from larger companies. 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.

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.

BLADE chose PBXtra because it is a fully functional IP PBX system that is easier to scale, use and manage than a Nortel system. PBXtra's flexible, standards-based architecture makes it easy to quickly scale beyond 90 seats, while Nortel's digital and IP hybrid solution has hard system limitations, which require a significant system overhaul to increase capacity.

PBXtra is also designed from the ground up to be one of the world's easiest phone systems to set up, use, manage and expand. PBXtra gives BLADE the ability to self-manage its phone system, while traditional alternatives require steep technician fees of $150 an hour, or more, to simply add another person to the system.

"Fonality's PBXtra is extremely attractive to me since it allows me to worry less about my phone system, so I can focus more time on my regular job. In Fonality's support model, everything is easily included so if there is new software, I get it for free. Nortel was trying to charge me around $5,000 a year just for service and support, but high quality service and support comes free from Fonality." said Amon Prasad, director of information technology at BLADE.

Fonality's patent-pending, hybrid-hosted technology also appealed to BLADE because it seamlessly integrates mobile and home-based workers into the company's phone system. "We were excited to find out that we can now have employees work from an IP phone at home or a softphone on their laptop while keeping their same four digit extension," said Prasad. "Fonality makes this process so much easier because we can give remote workers a handset at their home or remote office and they can plug it into their DSL/cable line and be connected. It's just that simple."

"Signing BLADE is just another proof-point that the SMB market is ready for another option. They are sick and tired of overpaying for a phone system that has a limited feature set." said Chris Lyman, CEO of Fonality.

"Sick and tired is right! For the cost of one Nortel system, I could get two Fonality systems and still have change left over!" said Amon Prasad, director of information technology at BLADE.

Fonality is a recognized leader in bringing a wide range of open source solutions to the market. PBXtra includes a modified version of the open source IP-PBX platform Asterisk^® that Fonality has hardened for reliability and layered with feature-rich applications. Fonality's business phone systems deliver more functionality with significantly improved ease-of-use at 40 to 80 percent less than the cost of comparable systems from larger companies. Out of the box, PBXtra Standard, PBXtra Professional and PBXtra Call Center support VoIP calling, advanced auto-attendant features, telecommuters, branch offices, drag-and-drop call control, conferencing and intra-office intercom, as well as a host of other advanced features. Fonality provides 24x7 technical support, and its patent-pending hybrid-hosted architecture ensures reliability by allowing real-time monitoring and remote system management.

PBXtra is available direct from Fonality or through a Fonality reseller. For more information about PBXtra or becoming a Fonality reseller, visit www.fonality.com

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.

"Fonality has been recognized with a 2006 Product of the Year Award for their excellence in technological advancement and application refinement," said Rich Tehrani, TMC President and Group Editor-in-Chief of Communications Solutions. "The company has proven they are committed to quality and excellence in solutions that deliver a great customer experience and demonstrable ROI for the companies that use them. I am pleased to honor their hard work and accomplishments."

"PBXtra means value," said Chris Lyman, Fonality CEO. "It delivers twice as much as the big boys' offerings for a fraction of the price. It's great news that Communications Solutions has recognized the full-featured solution PBXtra provides and we will not take our foot off the pedal when it comes to providing the best value for our customers."

Fonality's PBXtra business phone system delivers more functionality with significantly improved ease-of-use at 40 to 80 percent less than the cost of comparable systems from larger companies. 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.

For more information about Fonality products or becoming a Fonality reseller, visit www.fonality.com

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.

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.

PC Mall is one of the first direct marketers to sell business class VoIP phone systems directly to SMB customers. SMBs recognize the power of new, low-cost communications products and are expected to spend $6.7 billion on new gear by the end of 2007 (Source: AMI-Partners). Demand for IP PBXs, or business phone systems, is expected to grow by 33 percent over the next five years. PBXtra, available in Standard, Enterprise and Call Center Editions, delivers enterprise-class features to this market at a price point they can afford.

"With PBXtra, we can now provide our customers with an affordable, easy-to-use VoIP system that delivers all of the features of large enterprise products," said Gertrud Pillay, PC Mall vice president of marketing. "It's important that we offer a range of products that deliver maximum value at every price point."

"PC Mall has incredible reach into the SMB market and we are fortunate to be partnering with them to tap the demand for easy-to-use telephony," said Chris Vuillaume, vice president of business development and channels for Fonality. "It's an opportunity for PC Mall to cut through the hype of VoIP and deliver an IP-PBX solution that is full-featured, very easy to implement, fully supported and can be administered by somebody non-technical."

Fonality's PBXtra business phone system delivers more functionality with significantly improved ease-of-use at 40 to 80 percent less than the cost of comparable systems from larger companies. 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.

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.

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need call center capabilities to compete effectively in today.s marketplace. Previously, these companies only had two options for a call center solution. They could outsource call center operations to a costly third party, losing control of their most important calls in the process, or admit defeat and force-fit a regular office phone system into a contact center, often with small-sounding and unprofessional results. Now, with PBXtra Call Center Edition, SMBs have access to a robust call center solution that lets them operate like a large call center with increased reporting efficiencies, remote access capabilities and other advanced call center features for a fraction of the price.

"Fonality heard from hundreds of small and mid-size companies that they needed advanced call center capabilities, even in offices as small as 10 people," said Chris Lyman, CEO of Fonality. "Before, these customers were told they were too small for a call center solution or the prices were way out of their range. Fonality's call center systems have leveled the playing field by providing a way for SMBs to compete with larger companies without breaking the bank."

PBXtra Call Center Edition is a full-featured call center for SMBs that supports agents working on premise, at home or from any remote location. PBXtra Call Center Edition gives agents the flexibility to be part of distributed queues and still seamlessly communicate with associates over the company phone system. Designed for companies with two to 200 agents, PBXtra Call Center includes feature-rich call center capabilities such as branch office agent sharing, on-the-fly recording, barging, monitoring, text whisper/coach, web and phone agent log-in, real-time and historical graphical queues and agent presence management.

About Fonality:

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source, Asterisk^&174;-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.

For more than 15 years, Matrix Business Technologies, a Platinum Equity company, has specialized in providing a wide range of voice and data services specifically targeted to enterprises with 10-100 employees, and currently has more than 35,000 business customers. Fonality's PBXtra business phone system gives MSPs a managed voice offering to complement their existing network services (Analog, Digital PRI or SIP). Together, Fonality and Matrix are offering an out-of-the box voice solution and providing customers with a single source for a T-1 line and phone system, with absolutely no upfront customer costs.

Fonality's award-winning PBXtra phone system coupled with Matrix's current T-1 Velocity voice and data offering will provide a complete communication system, including a 24x7 network center and account management services. This hybrid-hosted phone system, powered by Fonality's PBXtra, is Matrix's only managed IP PBX solution and is supported 24x7, thus fulfilling the request of SMBs to only have one support line. Matrix customers will be able to choose from all of Fonality's award-winning PBXtra offerings: PBXtra, PBXtra Professional or PBXtra Call Center Edition, as well as its Heads Up Display (HUD^®) application.

"More and more SMBs are clamoring to get their hands on a high-quality, value-priced phone system," said Chris Vuillaume, vice president of business development and channel at Fonality. "By partnering with Matrix we are making it even easier for businesses throughout the U.S. to have access to just that. Now Matrix customers only have to make one stop for everything related to their communication needs, from the T-1 line to the phone; plus everything is under one monthly bill with a single point of contact."

Fonality's Managed Services Program (FMSP) targets both telecom and IT/data service providers and addresses the growing demand for managed turnkey solutions in the SMB market. PBXtra's patent-pending 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.

"Money in the bank matters most to SMB decision makers," said Russ Lambert, CEO of Matrix Business Technologies. "Typically, our customers expect to pay a significant upfro