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Fonality Names New CEO. Where's Chris Lyman in All This?
Interesting news. Fonality today announced that it has appointed Dean Mansfield to serve as the company's chief executive officer. Mansfield succeeds Chris Lyman, the company's founding CEO. Lyman will remain as chairman of the board. I'm not really sure how... Full Story
Posted on January 19, 2010 5:54 PM
Fonality Serves up 1 Billion Cloud VoIP Calls?
Today, Fonality announced it has served up its 1 billionth cloud call on their hosted VoIP platform called UNBOUND. UNBOUND is Fonality's fully hosted cloud phone system and VoIP service solution and starts at $24.99/mo. Of course, Fonality also offers... Full Story
Posted on January 8, 2010 11:07 AM
Halloween in VoIP Land
Fonality folks know how to work hard and play hard as they let off some steam for Halloween. Depicted here are the CEO (Chris Lyman) and Director of Engineering (Samy Kamkar) for Fonality. I'll let you guess who is who.... Full Story
Posted on October 30, 2009 3:51 PM
SIP Print SME VoIP Recording Appliance Launches
SIP Print is announcing today the general availability of a new, enterprise-class call recording platform for mid-market enterprises. The new SIP Print SME platform offers support for up to 200 seats per location, along with RAID hot-swappable drive bays, dual... Full Story
Posted on September 1, 2009 10:19 AM
trixbox CE vs. Asterisk Downloads
As you may have read, Digium announced a sharp rise in Asterisk downloads for 2008 registering in a whopping 1.5 million downloads for 2008. That got me thinking just how does Asterisk & AsteriskNOW compare with Fonality's trixbox CE distro?... Full Story
Posted on December 23, 2008 6:00 AM
Fonality Launches PBXtra Unified Agent on Salesforce.com's Force.com AppExchange
Back in September I wrote about Fonality's trixbox Unified Agent Edition (UAE) and how it can automatically match all inbound and outbound calls with the corresponding record in salesforce.com's AppExchange, and call data is captured and logged. Apparently, this... Full Story
Posted on December 9, 2008 12:40 PM
Toktumi Now Offered on Dell VoIP Website
Toktumi recently announced a partnership with Dell to distribute its small business VoIP service through a co-branded site on Dell.com (www.dell.com/voip), which also features Fonality, Nortel, and Bandwidth.com. So what's so special about Toktumi, (a word play on 'talk... Full Story
Posted on November 24, 2008 11:15 AM
Fonality Beats Avaya and Boasts 3,000 Call Centers
Fonality's CEO Chris Lyman spoke with me earlier today to talk about the strong inroads Fonality has been making in the call center market. Chris said, "Fonality has become a big player in what I like to call the... Full Story
Posted on October 22, 2008 9:59 PM
Digium Major Announcement - what can it be?
Today, Digium, creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the leading open source telephony platform will be making a major announcement at Astricon later today. Digium hinted to me that a major announcement would be made at Astricon when I visited their... Full Story
Posted on September 25, 2008 10:16 AM
HUD 3.0 for trixbox CE and any other Asterisk IP-PBX!
I spoke with Kerry Garrison last week at ITEXPO and he gave me a news scoop that Fonality would soon offer the HUD 3.0 Unified Communications client for the open source trixbox CE Asterisk-based platform. trixbox CE is one... Full Story
Posted on September 23, 2008 6:54 AM
Fonality Targets Call Centers with Advanced Call Center Features
I met with Fonality CEO Chris Lyman at ITEXPO and he gave me a demo of HUD 3.0, which includes some very advanced call center features. HUD 3.0 now not only displays the queues, but it lets you drag-and-drop individual... Full Story
Posted on September 18, 2008 6:50 PM
ITEXPO West 2008 Best of Show Winners
It's been a great ITEXPO - perhaps the best West Coast show we've had, especially when you consider the economic turmoil. It's worth sharing the companies and their products that were just awarded "Best of Show" at TMC's Internet Telephony... Full Story
Posted on September 18, 2008 6:18 PM
ITEXPO West 2008 a Resounding Success
Some great news from TMC about our IP communications conference & expositions (ITEXPO) taking place this week that I thought I'd share. The show is still going on, with today being the last day. Yesterday's exhibit hall attendance was tremendous... Full Story
Posted on September 18, 2008 11:41 AM
HUD3 Launches
Apparently, Fonality has decided to launch HUD3 (also called HUD 3.0), the latest version of their latest communications client at ITEXPO. I was aware HUD 3.0 was coming soon, but did not know it was launching at ITEXPO until I... Full Story
Posted on September 17, 2008 11:50 AM
Internet Telephony Expo Preview
Rich posted the official ITEXPO Show Guide, which gives you a preview of what's happening at next week's ITEXPO. You can check out the 17MB PDF by clicking the image to the left. In Rich's blog post, he previews... Full Story
Posted on September 10, 2008 10:07 AM
Interviews with Top 60 VoIP Movers and Shakers...
Rich Tehrani has a nice roundup of 60 interviews he's done with many of the major "movers and shakers" in the VoIP / IP communications industry. Rich writes: Whenever I go to a conference, I learn a tremendous amount from... Full Story
Posted on September 5, 2008 2:59 PM
Fonality's trixbox Pro Unified Agent Edition integrates with Salesforce.com
Fonality's trixbox Unified Agent Edition (UAE) can automatically match all inbound and outbound calls with the corresponding record in salesforce.com's AppExchange, and call data is captured and logged eliminating manual entry. This is a big step for Fonality in taking... Full Story
Posted on September 5, 2008 9:23 AM
trixbox Pro 2.0 review
Fonality is one of the premiere providers of Asterisk-based IP-PBX solutions. Fonality offers three products: PBXtra, trixbox CE (community edition), and trixbox Pro (commercial/reseller edition). trixbox Pro. which is their commercial edition runs on Fonality's "hardened" PBXtra technology, which... Full Story
Posted on September 4, 2008 10:19 AM
Fonality Lands $12M Financing Round from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)
Fonality, a provider of IP-PBX systems based on Asterisk, has just secured a $12 million financing round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) Growth Fund with participation from existing investor Intel Capital. Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a well known venture... Full Story
Posted on September 4, 2008 12:01 AM
BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one
Some BroadSoft, Fonality, and ITEXPO news all rolled in one. First, TMC put out a release about BroadSoft keynoting the next ITEXPO, the leading VoIP conference: The energy behind the upcoming ITEXPO West 2008 (www.ITEXPO.com), the industry's only Major... Full Story
Posted on July 16, 2008 1:09 PM
trixbox 2.0 launches
trixbox version 2.0 launched today. Current trixbox customers will automatically receive their upgrade to 2.0 between today (Tax Day) April 15th and Wednesday, April 16th, and best of all, it's 100% FREE. trixbox Pro Version 2.0 is a big release... Full Story
Posted on April 15, 2008 9:58 AM
New Communicator Add-in for Outlook
Last night I received an email from Microsoft allowing Microsoft MVPs to play with a new Communicator Add-in for Outlook. It's pre-release so playing with this new software is "invitation only". I tried to download the new version so I... Full Story
Posted on March 20, 2008 11:20 AM
Intuitive Voice Technology Calls Out other Asterisk Competitors - Asterisk Clone Wars Have Begun...
In a news release, Intuitive Voice Technology is calling out other Asterisk-based solutions. First, Intuitive Voice Technology (IVT) espouses their 3,500 deployments as well they should. They then follow this back-slapping good news with a claim that "competitors clamor to... Full Story
Posted on March 13, 2008 9:31 AM
PBXtra 4.0 Released
Fonality today announced the release of PBXtra 4.0. New features in PBXtra include FindMe with Boomerang Mobile Integration, a feature that uses presence detection to automatically find employees on their mobile devices, allowing them to answer the call or bounce... Full Story
Posted on March 4, 2008 9:09 AM
Schmooze the Yiddish Asterisk
Oy vey! It appears we may have another Asterisk-based PBX in the mix. The chutzpah! The gall to launch an Asterisk-based system without telling me! I feel like such a schmuck for not knowing. After schleping some Aastra phones into... Full Story
Posted on February 1, 2008 12:08 PM
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