{"id":7199,"date":"2008-09-04T08:49:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T08:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/fonality_gets_more_funding.html"},"modified":"2008-09-04T08:49:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T08:49:42","slug":"fonality-gets-more-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/fonality-gets-more-funding.html","title":{"rendered":"Fonality Gets More Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fonality just received a $12 million financing<\/a> round by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund. This is a powerful statement by this top fund that they really beleive in the open source communications story and to be quite honest, it is tough to disagree that this is a great space to be in as most every vendor in the space is doing well. <\/p>\n

I have covered<\/a> Fonality before — the company makes quality PBX products and I have had a chance to test the Trixbox PBX for a number of months and remain impressed.<\/p>\n

Getting back to Draper — the fund has had some great investments<\/a> including Hotmail, Baidu, Focus Media (advertising in China), Skype, Overture, Divx and many others. Some of the lesser known, current investments<\/a> include Jobfox in the recruitment space, Kajeet — in mobile services and Visto in wireless email.<\/p>\n

But getting back to Fonality, the company has employed an interesting twist in the communications space as their PBX has taken some of the best parts of open-source and fused this<\/a> with a hosted model — allowing for example the recording of phone calls on Fonality servers which do not reside in your office.<\/p>\n

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At this point it should be obvious the open source communications market remains one of the most exciting spaces in telecom.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in the open source market be sure to come to ITEXPO<\/a> in two weeks in Los Angeles where you will see all the open-source leaders such as Digium\/Asterisk, Pika, Sangoma and of course Fonality. You can also take advantage of Fonality\/Trixbox certifications<\/a> which will be held at the show.<\/p>\n

See Also: trixbox Pro 2.0 review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fonality just received a $12 million financing round by Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund. This is a powerful statement by this top fund that they really beleive in the open source communications story and to be quite honest, it is tough to disagree that this is a great space to be in as most every<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,178,171,179,181,160,163,199,197,1677,188,198,209,189,118,177,190,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}