Source: www.voip-news.com

Business systems provider Fonality has released trixbox Pro 2.0, a second-gen IP-PBX solution that can be scaled for companies with 20 to 200 employees. It offers hands-free phone provisioning of IP-PBX products, making for quick and easy set-up of new phones.

“Resellers live and die by two things: margin and the time spent on site. trixbox Pro offers 50 percent margins and our hands-free provisioning reduces or eliminates on-site visits,” said Fonality CEO Chris Lyman. “We continue to lead the open source telephony market by introducing innovative and time-saving features.”

The new trixbox Pro also has BRI support and new support for E1 circuits.

According to Fonality:

trixbox Pro now has all the enhanced end user features available in Fonality’s turnkey offering. PBXtra 4.0®. FindMe^® with Boomerang^® Mobile Integration uses presence detection to automatically find employees on their mobile devices, allowing them to answer the call or bounce it to another extension. It allows employees to decide when and how they will be found according to their personal schedule and rules. trixbox Pro automatically observes a person’s keyboard and mouse activity and routes calls to their mobile phone or another number when they are inactive on their computer. FONcall^® is a new plug-in for the Firefox web browser and is the first one-click dialing application for business telephony. By clicking the link, trixbox Pro will automatically take an Aastra or Polycom phone off the hook and dial out to the number hands-free. New branch office integration merges spell-by-name directories, allowing callers to dial into one branch and find an employee at any other branch anywhere in the world.

Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com

Today I heard some good news that made me smile. Fonality has proved, once again that OSS Software is viable and people with capability could really make profit and achieve success with Open Source Software.
Not so long ago, TrixBox was a one man SourceForege based project (Under the name Asterisk@home), a good one at that. Over the time the project matured enough to be acquired by Fonality.

After the acquisition, Fonality did a good job of bringing the TrixBox in to the SMB market. First it released the Trixbox 2.0 and subsequently Fonality also released the TrisBox Pro in August 2007.

Now Fonality has announced discounts up to 50% and the fact that 10,000 downloads of the product. To support larger resellers and deployments, Fonality has introduced a revised pricing structure that makes trixbox Pro a compelling alternative for companies with up to 500 seats. These changes can reduce prices up to 50 percent for very large capacity deployments. A new release of trixbox Pro, available now, also supports larger deployments with unlimited mailboxes for voicemail-only extensions, and unlimited use of the Agents on Cell Phones feature which provides enhanced mobility by allowing agents to log into queues remotely.

Fonality has also announced a new reseller tier into the trixbox Reseller Program that allows smaller resellers to qualify for discounts on Fonality products and services by becoming FtOCC (pronounced “F-talk”) certified. The certifications, FtOCC Administrator, FtOCC Technician and FtOCC Engineer are each customized for a different level of technical expertise and depth of experience with trixbox.No quotas are required and certification training includes a free demo kit with two trixbox Pro Call Center Edition lifetime licenses, and one free month of support with certified hardware. Certification and a low initial investment give resellers the accreditation, discounts, and tools to resell and support trixbox Pro without a sales commitment. For more information on registration for FtOCC go to; http://www.trixbox.com/support-and-training/training.

Fonality, www.fonality.com,

Fonality’s trixbox, www.trixbox.org, is home to trixbox CE, trixbox Pro.