Fonality Releases the trixbox Appliance
Posted: March 19th, 2007 | Author: Garrett Smith | Filed under: New VoIP Products | 1 Comment »FONALITY LAUNCHES THE trixbox ASTERISK-BASED APPLIANCE
Fonality today announced a new enterprise telephony appliance based on trixbox, a leading Asterisk-based IP-PBX, and a range of complementary professional support options. The trixbox Appliance comes pre-installed with the trixbox software platform and is an industrial grade rack-mountable server with dual hard disk and dual power supply redundancy options.
It is aimed at businesses with five to 500 employees and can be purchased for use with VoIP, E1/T1 or up to 48 analog lines. Created for trixbox and Asterisk resellers, as well as IT professionals, the trixbox Appliance costs $999 and delivers the industry’s best price performance value for a PBX.
trixbox Enterprise Appliance Provides Affordability and Reliability for Businesses up to 500 Employees
The trixbox Appliance is powered by Intel and comes with pre-configured Sangoma line cards with industry-leading Octasic echo-cancellation hardware inside. Broad support for the appliance has been announced by a growing trixbox ecosystem that includes phone manufacturers Polycom, Aastra, and Grandstream, as well as VoIP service providers VoicePulse
and Teliax.
The trixbox Appliance includes trixbox 2.2, a new release of the popular distribution that integrates Asterisk with Apache, MySQL, SugarCRM and PHP. Included in this release is the new open source Asterisk GUI (graphical user interface), a component of the AsteriskNow(tm) distribution, which gives customers an additional trixbox GUI option.
[...] The race to an enterprise appliance between trixbox and Digium, has been well documented here at Smith On VoIP. First it was the Asterisk Developers Kit, and now trixbox has it’s own enterprise grade open source communications appliance. With Digium rumored to all be releasing a new appliance targeted at the do-it-yourself enterprise this week and already building a worldwide reseller channel, the timing of the trixbox appliance could not be any better. [...]