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Fonality announces trixbox Pro appliance

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LOS ANGELES: Fonality, a maker of business phone systems, announced that the new trixbox Pro appliance, which formerly only shipped with the trixbox Community Edition software, will soon begin shipping with the trixbox Pro commercial software.

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Now, trixbox and Asterisk resellers, and IT professionals will have access to pre-built, tested and certified hardware specifically designed for trixbox Pro software, making for simpler, faster deployments in the small to medium sized business (SMB) market. The trixbox Pro software has already been deployed more than 2100 times in 70 countries, even though it was released less than a month ago.

The trixbox Pro appliance costs $999 and delivers 80 times the storage and 10 times the capacity of similar-priced Asterisk solid-state appliances on the market today. It is an industrial grade, rack-mountable server that comes standard with two 80 GB hard disks in RAID-1, 512MB of RAM, and a powerful Intel duo core processor. It also comes with an optional dual power supply to increase long-term reliability. The trixbox Pro appliance is tailored for businesses with five to 500 employees and can be purchased for use with VoIP, PRI, E1/T1, or up to 48 analog lines.

“We designed the trixbox appliance to be multi-purposed for both trixbox CE and trixbox Pro,” said Fonality CEO, Chris Lyman. “The goal was to free resellers of having to build their own servers, and then install the trixbox software. The faster they can put a reliable appliance out in the field, the higher their ROI will be on each deployment.”

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The trixbox Pro appliance is powered by Intel and comes with pre-configured Sangoma line cards. Broad support for the appliance and the trixbox software platforms has been announced by a growing trixbox ecosystem that includes phone manufacturers Aastra and Polycom, card provider Sangoma, as well as VoIP service providers Allgent Communications, Broadvox, and Cbeyond.

trixbox Pro phone system

trixbox Pro phone system software is a “hybrid-hosted” system that offers an affordable alternative to the traditional, expensive IP-PBX solutions. trixbox Pro includes conference calling, unified messaging between voicemail and email, employee presence management, embedded corporate chat server, and the ability to integrate with Microsoft Outlook, Salesforce.com and SugarCRM. The base edition of trixbox Pro comes already installed on the appliance. Resellers can choose to upgrade to paid editions: trixbox Enterprise Edition (EE) or trixbox Call Center Edition (CCE). The upgradeable versions are available for a monthly fee or one-time, per-seat charge.