TrixBox Pro, officially out today
Source: snapvoip.blogspot.com
LOS ANGELES — August 13, 2007 — Small and medium-size businesses no longer need to pay for a phone system or in-network phone calls worldwide, according to an announcement today from Fonality, a maker of business phone systems. Companies can now download trixbox® Pro, a free business-grade phone system that allows companies with five to 500 employees to make free VoIP calls. In addition to traditional PSTN dialing and PBX features, trixbox Pro also 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.
trixbox Pro includes trixNet", a free in-network calling service which lets any trixbox Pro user call any other trixbox Pro user, using their regular phone numbers. Calls over trixNet are not subject to any local or long-distance charges. Fonality will soon extend trixNet to the trixbox CE (Community Edition) platform, its popular open source Asterisk®-based software which has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times. In early 2008, Fonality will also extend free trixNet calling to include anybody using GoogleTalk, Google’s instant communications service.
"As the lines between the PC and phones increasingly blur, the data community is asking for a low-cost commercial IP phone system that they can install along with the routers and firewalls they already service, said Fonality CEO Chris Lyman. trixbox Pro, as a brandable software-only product, stands to create a whole new revenue stream for this community of VARs."
trixbox Pro is a hybrid-hosted phone system, which means the free software is first downloaded by a business and installed on a local computer and local IP phones. After this step, the local computer connects to the Fonality network where 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. Fonality’s hybrid-hosted services are market proven and have processed more than 120 million calls for 2,500 companies with 53,000 individual extensions worldwide.
The base edition of trixbox Pro is free and there are two paid editions tailored specifically for the reseller market that are available for a monthly fee or one-time, per-seat charge. trixbox Enterprise Edition (EE) and trixbox Call Center Edition (CCE) have the enterprise feature sets required for larger businesses and professional call centers, but at a low fixed or monthly fee. Fonality developed trixbox Pro EE and trixbox CCE 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. trixbox Pro will be available in seven languages: US English, UK English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Want it? get it at Trixbox.com
