trixbox Pro Turns 10,000, Cuts Prices Up to 50 Percent
50 Percent Discount to Resellers Continues to Drive Strong Channel Adoption
LOS ANGELES – October 22, 2007 – Fonality, a maker of business phone systems, announced today that trixbox® Pro, the company’s channel-focused IP-PBX, has been downloaded 10,000 times since its release ten weeks ago. As a result of strong reseller feedback, new aggressive price tiers have been introduced that make trixbox Pro up to 50 percent more affordable for larger deployments. With up to 50 percent discounts, and the option of monthly pricing, trixbox Pro continues to be a strong fit for data VARs, interconnects, ISPs and MSPs.
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. 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.
“The phone system is just one spoke in a wheel made up of many applications, and we have given the data community a game-changing telephony platform they are actively selling alongside the many products they already service,” said Fonality CEO Chris Lyman. “Now we have structured a channel program that lets the little guy make real money on smaller deployments, and creates substantial opportunity for large resellers working on much bigger deployments.”
Fonality supports all solution providers with a range of certification programs designed specifically for trixbox and Asterisk resellers. FtOCC Administrator, FtOCC Technician and FtOCC Engineer are each customized for a different level of technical expertise and depth of experience with trixbox. FtOCC Administrator teaches the basics of trixbox installation and administration. FtOCC Technician teaches Linux system administrators how to support trixbox deployments. FtOCC Engineer is in response to the growing popularity of trixbox as a platform and teaches developers how to create their own innovative telephony applications on top of trixbox. FtOCC courses are conducted monthly in the U.S., Europe and South America. For more information on registration for FtOCC go to http://www.trixbox.com/support-and-training/training.
trixbox Pro is a managed system driven by a patent-pending, hybrid-hosted architecture. Once downloaded and installed on a standard PC, trixbox Pro automatically updates software, configures phones, and connects to Fonality so that server health, call quality and usage are constantly monitored. The hybrid-hosted nature of trixbox Pro also securely extends the phone system outside the corporate firewall, so an employee’s extension can follow them when they work from home, remotely on a laptop, or even on a mobile phone. With automatic software updates, 24x7 remote proactive monitoring and automatic configuration back-up, resellers can lower support costs and charge for valuable services to their customers, at no additional cost.
Fonality developed trixbox Pro to give resellers and IT professionals simple, easy to use phone software that saves them time so they can focus on growing their business, increasing revenue and delivering a higher level of customer service. Additionally, all three editions of trixbox Pro can be easily branded by resellers for a custom look-and-feel. Product logos, screen appearance and color schemes can all be tailored to match the brand of the reseller or end-customer.
For a complete list of features or information about the trixbox Reseller Program, please visit www.trixbox.com.
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.
Fonality, PBXtra, HUD, trixbox and trixNet are registered trademarks of Fonality. Asterisk is a registered trademark of Digium, Inc. Fonality, trixbox, PBXtra and trixNet are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Digium Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.