Fonality^® the leader in open source IP telephony, announced today that PBXtra^™ took home an important award recognizing the popular business phone system for its rich feature set and a price point that makes it affordable for small and medium-sized businesses. PBXtra, the full-featured VoIP-capable phone system in use by over 2,000 customers in 37 countries, has been named 2006 Product of the Year by Communications Solutions.

"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.

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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.