Fonality^®, the world’s largest deployment of open source-based phone systems, today announced high growth in the company’s commercial and open source business units. trixbox^® CE, Fonality’s open source project, has now been downloaded a total of 2.6 million times, which includes 1.6 million SourceForge downloads and an additional one million upgrades downloaded from trixbox.org. Separately, over the past five months Fonality’s commercial customer count has doubled. More than 5,000 customers in over 100 countries are now using the company’s business phone systems and have made a total of 225 million calls over the company’s hybrid-hosted systems, PBXtra^® and trixbox Pro.

“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.