Fonality Expands IP Telephony Channel Network Into Europe With Partners in France, Italy, Poland and the UK
FtOCC (Fonality trixbox Open Communications Certification) Administration Workshop Scheduled for October 9-11, 2007 in London
LOS ANGELES – Oct. 1, 2007 - Fonality®, maker of business phone systems, today announced that it signed partnerships with solution providers in France, Poland, Italy and the UK to resell and support its newly launched trixbox® Pro phone system. CNSI (France), Halo2 (Poland), V4VoIP (UK), VCOMM (UK), VoIPon (UK), and Wildix (Italy) are among the first to sign-up for Fonality’s value-added partner program, and are establishing themselves as important resources for advanced IP communications in Europe. Now small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in Europe have access to affordable, easy–to-use IP communications that helps them compete with larger, more established enterprises.
To facilitate adoption of trixbox Pro in Europe, Fonality will host an FtOCC (Fonality trixbox Open Communications Certification) training workshop in London on October 9-11, 2007, at the Sheraton Skyline at Heathrow Airport. FtOCC is a training and certification course designed around the Asterisk®-based trixbox platform.
Fonality created trixbox Pro specifically for the channel. It is a fully brandable, software-only product that creates new revenue streams for VARs and systems integrators expanding into IP communications. It is a hybrid-hosted phone system that offers an affordable alternative to the traditional, expensive IP-PBX solutions currently available in Europe.
“European SMBs need affordable business-class phone systems that easily scale as they grow and we’re supplying them with a system that does just that,” said Chris Vuillaume, vice president of business development and channel for Fonality. “We are giving our partners a product that enables them spend more time growing their business, and therefore boost revenue streams, rather than customizing solutions for customers.”
Fonality certifies trixbox and Asterisk® resellers, as well as IT professionals, through a series of workshops - FtOCC Technician, FtOCC Administrator and FtOCC Engineer. Each is customized for a different level of technical expertise and depth of experience with trixbox. In London, Fonality will be hosting FtOCC Administrator which covers all of the core operations that a trixbox administrator needs to handle on a regular basis. It covers installation and administration basics for trixbox CE and trixbox Pro, and is a hands-on way for those new to trixbox to learn the ins-and-outs of the system. To sign-up for the London-based FtOCC session or for more information, please visit: http://ftocc-uk.eventbrite.com/.
About New Fonality Partners
• CNSI (www.cnsi.fr), a French-based IP Telephony, security and network management reseller that has been successful in serving French SMB customers.
• Halo2 (www.halo2.pl), a Polish-based value-added distributor that delivers solutions to central and Eastern Europe and focuses entirely on serving the hardware and software needs of the open source telephony reseller channel.
• V4VoIP (www.v4voip.co.uk), a UK-based reseller and service provider in the voice market. V4 also provides other services including number porting from traditional PSTN to VoIP.
• VCOMM (www.vcomm.co.uk), a UK-based, Internet communications distributor who provides IP telephony products and services to the UK and Irish reseller channel.
• VoIPon (www.voipon.co.uk), a UK-based IP telephony distributor selling a wide range of VoIP products and services to resellers worldwide.
• Wildix (www.wildix.com), an Italian-based European distributor specializing in Voice over IP for the SMB market, selling to VAR’s throughout Europe.
For more information about becoming a Fonality partner please visit: www.trixbox.com/resellers/
About Fonality
Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source, Asterisk-based IP telephony systems. PBXtra, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX product line for small and medium-sized businesses, is widely recognized as the world’s largest commercial Asterisk-based deployment with over 2,500 systems in 50 countries making over 130 million calls. PBXtra includes a hardened and improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base which has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. PBXtra uses Fonality's patent-pending architecture to deliver all the advanced features of an enterprise-class phone system and call center at 40 to 80 percent less than traditional offerings. Fonality's trixbox, www.trixbox.org, is home to trixbox CE, trixbox Pro and one of the world's largest and fastest growing communities of users of Asterisk-based software with an average of 65,000 downloads a month.
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