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Dell picks Fonality VoIP Phone System
I missed my early meeting today with Fonality CEO Chris Lyman about some blockbuster news he wanted to share being announced at ITEXPO. Fortunately, as administrator of the blog server I happened to be checking out Rich's blog entries to... Full Story
Posted on January 23, 2008 12:00 AM
trixbox CE 2.4 Released
trixbox CE 2.4 was recently released and features some major improvements. trixbox CE 2.4 features CentOS 5.1 as the base operating system and Asterisk 1.4 as the engine. These are two major improvements over prior releases. Fonality's Kerry Garrison writes,... Full Story
Posted on January 4, 2008 11:50 AM
FonalityCRM Launches
Chris Lyman over at Fonality spoke with me last week about FonalityCRM, a new offering that came about with the acquisition of Insightful Solutions Pty Ltd., a SugarCRM Gold Partner based out of Australia. Insightful has created enhancements to the... Full Story
Posted on November 5, 2007 7:04 AM
Chris Lyman on Unified Communications
Greg Galitzine has an excellent interview with Fonality CEO, Chris Lyman about unified communications, Microsoft (OCS 2007), and Cisco. Chris goes into the threat he believes Microsoft and Cisco may pose, as well as some analysis of Microsoft Response Point... Full Story
Posted on October 19, 2007 4:20 PM
trixbox training in London
Fonality is offering world-wide training sessions as part of their Fonality trixbox Open Communication Certification (FtOCC). The next class is being held in London, UK from October 9-11 at the Sheraton Skyline Heathrow Airport hotel. The offical name for the... Full Story
Posted on September 28, 2007 3:03 PM
Digium Acquires Switchvox
Switchvox, a provider of Asterisk-based solutions, has been acquired by Digium, the founding company of the open source Asterisk software solution. This is the second recent acquisition since Digium also recently acquired Astricon. Switchvox, with 1400 Systems Installed and over... Full Story
Posted on September 27, 2007 3:00 AM
PIKA launches PIKA Appliance for Asterisk
PIKA Technologies Inc., today announced the release of its PIKA Appliance for Asterisk. The PIKA Appliance for Asterisk. According to PIKA, "This unit provides developers with an out-of-the-box embedded computer that allows them to deploy Asterisk with a rich set... Full Story
Posted on September 18, 2007 9:46 AM
Fonality Picked The Overall IT Expo Best of Show Winner
In addition to blogging, reviewing VoIP products, and managing TMC's IT department, I'm one of the judges for Best of Show at Internet Telephony Conference & Expo. I should mention that TMC has created several categories that exhibitors can apply... Full Story
Posted on September 11, 2007 10:44 PM
Selecting an open source VoIP solution for the SMB Market session
Just got out of moderating a session about selecting an open source VoIP solution for the SMB market. It was very well attended and the debate pretty lively. Here's who was in the IT Expo session: Chris Vuillaume, VP BusDev/Channel... Full Story
Posted on September 11, 2007 4:05 PM
Chris Lyman joins the blogosphere
Chris Lyman, CEO of Fonality, provider of Asterisk-based solutions, such as trixbox, just stated a blog last week. Chris is not only insightful and knowledgeable of the VoIP industry, he's very opinionated too, which makes for interesting reading. He's off... Full Story
Posted on September 4, 2007 10:54 AM
Avaya #1 VoIP PBX Vendor?
I was too busy yesterday to blog this news, but thought it was still important enough to mention. Yesterday, I received an email stating that Avaya, a traditional PBX manufacturer had "widened its lead in worldwide enterprise Internet protocol (IP)... Full Story
Posted on August 21, 2007 11:55 AM
Mitel sues ShoreTel - What does it mean?
Some fellow TMCers were emailing back-and-forth about the Mitel lawsuit against Shoretel just before Shoretel launched their IPO. A few moments later, Jon Arnold emailed me, a bunch of TMCers, Om, VoIPCentral, Ken Camp, Russell Shaw, and a few other... Full Story
Posted on June 28, 2007 3:34 PM
Nortel Strong Arms Open Source Vendor
What happens when a VoIP blog (yours truly) writes about the fact that a former Nortel subsidiary (Blade Network Technologies) went looking for a new phone system, chose an open-source Asterisk-based solution from Fonality instead of using Nortel's own PBX... Full Story
Posted on May 22, 2007 3:33 PM
Former Nortel Subsidiary Picks Fonality's PBXtra Over Nortel
Today, I spoke with Fonality's CEO Chris Lyman and Amon Prasad, Director of Information Technology for BLADE Network Technologies. BLADE Network Technologies is a former subsidiary of Nortel and get this - they selected Fonality’s Asterisk-based PBXtra over a comparable... Full Story
Posted on May 17, 2007 5:51 PM
pbxnsip CS 410 IP-PBX review
Here's an exclusive sneak peek of a TMC Labs review of the SIP-based pbxnsip CS 410 IP-PBX appliance, which is scheduled for review within Internet Telephony Magazine. As hinted at within the review, the trend towards low-cost IP-PBX appliances <$1000... Full Story
Posted on May 8, 2007 11:35 AM
trixbox Buyers Club Launches
Rich Tehrani has an interesting scoop on his blog about the trixbox Buyers Club, part of Fonality's marketing angle to promote trixbox, an Astrerisk-based IP-PBX. Essentially, the trixbox Buyers Club offers discounts on 1,200 products, including VoIP phones and even technical support, which... Full Story
Posted on April 18, 2007 11:06 PM
PBX Prompts for Asterisk and other open source PBXs launches tomorrow
Garrett Smith informed me that Sayers Media Group tomorrow will launch PBX Prompts. What is PBX Prompts? It's pretty much what it sounds like. PBX Prompts offers a variety of standard voice prompt packages for Asterisk and other open-source systems... Full Story
Posted on April 3, 2007 11:47 AM
Fonality's trixbox appliance Part 2
Fonality's release of their Linux-based trixbox appliance certainly is creating some buzz in the Asterisk community. According to Fonality, the trixbox appliance has the following features: The appliance comes with a 4-port network card, so (just like the Digium appliance)... Full Story
Posted on March 19, 2007 9:53 AM
Fonality launches Asterisk-based trixbox Appliance
Fonality announced a new enterprise telephony appliance based on trixbox, a popular distribution of Asterisk and aptly named "trixbox appliance". If an Asterisk-based appliance sounds familiar, you would be correct. Digium has their own Asterisk appliance as well. Are Asterisk-based... Full Story
Posted on March 18, 2007 12:00 AM
Fonality PBXtra Call Center Edition released
Fonality today released their latest version of PBXtra Call Center Edition v3.5, an Asterisk-based IP-PBX, and added some interesting new call center features. For instance, PBXtra Call Center Edition has a new feature that lets remote call center agent's receive... Full Story
Posted on February 21, 2007 12:00 AM
Fonality gets financial boost from Intel
Fonality, makers of Asterisk-based PBXtra and the free trixbox Asterisk-based distribution, has secured $7 million in a Series C round led by Intel Capital with participation from existing investor, Azure Capital Partners. It's a little known fact, but Intel Capital... Full Story
Posted on February 6, 2007 9:00 PM
Digium vs. Fonality Round 2
Back In October of last year, I figured out that something was up between Asterisk@Home (now Trixbox) and Fonality. Chris Lyman, the CEO of Fonality told me, "I don't know how you figured out on June 6th that we were getting... Full Story
Posted on January 25, 2007 3:39 PM
trixbox 2.0 webinar
Boy, I'm on a tear writing about Asterisk-based solutions the past couple days. :) In any event, wanted to point out that SmithOnVoIP mentioned to me that Fonality is offering a free webinar on trixbox 2.0, which covers "the basic... Full Story
Posted on January 4, 2007 8:41 AM
Signate, an Asterisk provider, bites the dust?
Signate is a provider of Asterisk-based solutions that apparently is going through major problems. I've been getting lots of emails asking if I know what is going on with them, so I did some research. Word through the grapevine is... Full Story
Posted on December 8, 2006 12:28 PM
Who is redirecting trixbox/Asterisk@Home web traffic?
Have you noticed how http://www.asteriskathome.com points to http://www.asterisknow.org/, a site that promotes AsteriskNOW, a new software distribution that includes a customized version of Linux, Asterisk, the Asterisk GUI, and all other software needed for an Asterisk system. AsteriskNOW is promoted... Full Story
Posted on December 5, 2006 12:58 PM



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