Fonality^®, the world's largest deployment of Asterisk^®-based phone systems, today announced that more than 2,500 customers with 53,000 phones in 50 countries have adopted its award winning business phone system, PBXtra^™, and have used it to place more than 130 million VoIP and traditional calls. The high growth is fueled by increasing demand from small and medium-sized businesses for affordable, easy to use, feature-rich alternatives to the high-cost offerings sold by traditional communications companies.

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.