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Latest Deal Further Proof of Fonality’s Mainstream Appeal

If anyone can make the comparison between a Nortel phone system and the new bread of IP based phone systems, it is a former subsidiary of Nortel. The fact that the Nortel subsidiary selected Fonality says a lot about the sad state of legacy phone system providers and their IP enabled systems.

According to the release, BLADE Network Technologies, a former subsidiary of Nortel, selected Fonality’s award-winning PBXtra(tm) over a comparable system from Nortel. Fonality was able to
deliver a sophisticated and easy-to-use phone system at less than 50 percent of the cost of a proposed Nortel system. BLADE Network Technologies chose PBXtra because it is a fully functional IP PBX system that is easier to scale, use and manage than a Nortel system. PBXtra’s flexible, standards-based architecture makes it easy to quickly scale beyond 90 seats, while Nortel’s digital and IP hybrid solution has hard system limitations, which require a significant system overhaul to
increase capacity.

This One Quote Says It All

“Fonality’s PBXtra is extremely attractive to me since it allows me to worry less about my phone system, so I can focus more time on my regular job. In Fonality’s support model, everything is easily included so if there is new software, I get it for free. Nortel was trying to charge me around $5,000 a year just for service and support, but high quality service and support comes free from Fonality.” said Amon Prasad, director of information technology at BLADE.

For those of use fortunate enough to be in the know, we have been privy to stories and sound-bites like this time and time again. Flexible, scalable, and of course, economically priced open sourced based solutions beating the pants off of their over priced proprietary brethren. As time goes on, this story will become the norm.

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