Fonality^®, the leading maker of phone systems for small and medium-sized business, announced today that its award-winning PBXtra^™ IP-PBX, was named Editors' Choice by PC Magazine in a roundup against competing open and closed source phone systems of similar price. PBXtra is a VoIP-capable phone system designed to be purchased, installed and managed by non-technical professionals. More than 2,000 companies with 45,000 phones in 37 countries have adopted PBXtra and placed more than 75 million VoIP and traditional calls.

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.