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Fonality, Dell team up for SMB VoIP solution

  Here at the Internet Telephony Conference  & Expo in Miami Beach, open-source Internet calling solutions provider Fonality is showing a new offering called the Fonality VoIP Phone System. Launched with Dell, the aim of Fonality VoIP Phone System is to make affordable phone...

Tags: Team, Dell Computer Corp., Fonality, Dell'Oro Group, Small And Medium Business, Fonality VoIP Phone System, Jes, Smb/Sme, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-01-24

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Taridium Displaces Legacy Telephony Solution at TT Electronics

TT Electronics integrated manufacturing services is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TT electronics plc, a British owned global electronics group, with 23 main manufacturing sites worldwide, 7600 employees and revenue of £545m (US$1 billion) in 2007. In 1997 TT Electronics implemented a Toshiba phone system. By 2008 the phone system had...

Tags: Phone, Telephony, Taridium, TT Electronics Plc., Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities

Case studies 2009-07-23

Focus Research: 6 Signs That You Need to Upgrade Your Business Phone System

This information-packed guide compares the top 12 VoIP phone system and IP PBX providers for the enterprise. We've taken the guesswork out of your decision making! This informative comparison guide will allow you to make an insightful comparison of basic functions, features, pricing and more across the...

Tags: Phone, Tippit Inc., Comparison, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2009-07-20

Beware of the TrixBox: Redux

My post yesterday referencing Mercian Label’s saga of moving to Fonality’s TrixBox drew fire on both sides of the open source debate. TrixBox is a VoIP appliance that Fonally bills as installing "quickly in an all-in-one solution." Many were vehemently opposed...

Tags: Phone, Fonality, TrixBox, Telecom & Utilities, Open Source, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Beware of the TrixBox

Beware of the TrixBoxmisleading titlewell based on reading the article, it seems one ought not to necessarily beware of trixbox, but to beware of the HUD feature in certain circumstances or of poor network configuration and network interface settings.RE: Beware of the TrixBoxtrixbox deployments go well for those that have...

Tags: Telephony, VOIP, HUD, Trixbox, network

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Beware of the TrixBox

For those of you thinking of cutting over to a packaged Asterisk solution, you'll want to read  this account from Dr. Adrian Steele, the Managing Director of Mercian Labels, a UK SME specialising in short run label printing and...

Tags: Phone, Softphone, Network, Telecom & Utilities, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Networking, Emerging Technologies, Dave Greenfield

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Hosted vs. server-based Unified Communications: come and join the debate

Hosted vs. server-based Unified Communications: come and join the debateBelow the threshold...The problem with a 20 user company is that to buy all the hardware and software listed, you end up with and pay for far more capacity than you need. Other than the CAL's, the the system you...

Tags: VOIP, server, QUALITY Premise, Hosted, unified communications, IT-staff

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

Skype is back (for some); damage to reputation is done

Skype is back for some; damage to reputation is doneMaybe this is just academically?Well, seems to me this is more important on the academic field than the business field I might be totally wrong. Skype I think is a very good example of the Second Media Age products, and the...

Tags: Telephony, PRODUCTIVITY, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, skype, Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Fonality releases free VoIP phone system trixbox Pro

Big announcements today from open-source business phone systems and solutions developer Fonality.Today marks the official release of trixbox Pro. Fonality is marketing the product as a free business-grade phone system that lets business users with 5 to 500 employees to make free VoIP calls. What this means: more pressure on residential-VoIP providers as they...

Tags: VoIP, Phone, Fonality, VoIP Phone, Phone System, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-08-13

Microsoft vs. open source now spreading to VoIP?

Paul at GigaOM writes about some new SIP-based, Microsoft office Communications software-compliant IP voice devices — phones, headsets, videocam monitors — being informally unveiled today at the Windows Hardware Engineering conference in Los Angeles.Paul correctly sees this as a move on Microsofts part to break into the corporate VoIP...

Tags: Asterisk, General, microsoft, Predictions and Observations

Blog posts 2007-05-14

Why have a phone network?

That's the question that constantly occurs to me when talking with folks like Fonality founder Chris Lyman.Fonality today announced trixbox 2.0, a new version of its open source PBX software, featuring a new Graphical User Interface GUI to make installation and integration easier.The irony here is that Fonality's business model...

Tags: Fonality, telephone, Lyman

Blog posts 2006-10-25

Will Asterisk be a threat to VoIP carriers? It already is!

Fellow blogger Alec Saunders wrote a post last week that has brought a notion from the back of my brain to the front. (Given how crowded my brain is, that's no small feat). What Alex is saying, in essence, is that the growth of open-source, do-it-yourself Asterisk open...

Tags: Asterisk

Blog posts 2006-09-09

Placing some Fonality on the PBX Business with Linux

Placing some Fonality on the PBX Business with LinuxResponse from Fonality CEODana - you asked two questions at the closure of your blog and I have replied to them below:> Once everything moves to the Internet,> is a PBX really anything more than a very> limited operating system?The answer is:...

Tags: Telephony, VOIP, INTERNET, OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Fonality, Asterisk, PBX, voice quality

Discussion threads 2006-01-30