trixbox Live! Sells Out, Event Expanded, Registration Reopened for Limited Time

Free Gathering for trixbox Community Happens July 15th in Los Angeles

Fonality®, the leading provider of open source business communications systems, announced today that it is has expanded the July 15th trixbox Live! event, a free gathering for the trixbox community being held at the Westin LAX in Los Angeles. trixbox Live! sold out on the first day of registration and has now been expanded to accommodate all trixbox community members. Designed as a free networking and education event for the largest open source telephony community, attendees are coming from around the United States and 20 different countries. To reserve space, register today at http://trixboxlive.eventbrite.com.

trixbox Live! is the first in a series of free nationwide events created especially for the trixbox CE and trixbox Pro communities. trixbox founder, Andrew Gillis, along with trixbox Community Director, Kerry Garrison, will host a full day of training on how to take trixbox to your market and be successful selling trixbox-based phone systems.

“I am humbled and excited by growth of the trixbox project,” says Andrew Gillis, trixbox founder. “It started as a simple means of installing Asterisk for myself and some friends and has grown into the largest project in the world for open source telephony. And now with the trixbox Live! events, we can bring the community face to face with each other and spur more innovation and a deeper sense of community.”

trixbox Live! attendees will learn about new features, get insight into the trixbox roadmap and see live demos that demonstrate how to integrate trixbox with a variety of different hardware components. trixbox-specific sales training will include:
How to explain the value of trixbox
How to effectively sell against competing products
Details on effective closing techniques
How to increase your profits by cross-selling services and third-party products

All attendees will receive a free trixbox Pro demo kit, lots of great trixbox schwag and a free community networking lunch. The demo kit includes two trixbox Pro 2.0 Call Center Edition lifetime licenses with one month of unlimited technical support. As part of the sales training agenda, Brad Pitt, director of Fonality channel sales, will provide an overview of trixbox Pro 2.0 with HUD, the award-winning application that provides a unified view of chat, email, and calling for all fixed and mobile workers. For more information about trixbox Live! Visit http://trixbox.org/event/trixboxlive.

trixbox CE is the world’s largest free and open source telephony project with 3 million downloads, 200,000 live deployments, and is growing at 125,000 new downloads each month. Just released, trixbox CE 2.6.1 has new, expanded hardware support, an enhanced user interface and new admin modules, including an improved backup system and a bulk extension import tool.

trixbox Pro, a commercial offering, is designed for modern workplaces where companies have a mix of office, roaming and home-based workers. It supports both VoIP calling and traditional phone lines, and a patented hybrid-hosted architecture allows employee identity to be maintained whether they are working at the office, at home or traveling.

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5,000 companies and 100,000 end users in 100 countries, Fonality’s award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox Pro product lines are based on Fonality’s patent-pending Anywhere Management™ Hybrid-Hosted™ architecture, plus an improved version of the popular open source Asterisk code base which has been modified to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features. PBXtra and trixbox Pro deliver the advanced capabilities of an enterprise-class phone system for 40 to 80 percent less than traditional offerings. Fonality’s fully free and open source telephony platform, trixbox CE (www.trixbox.org), is home to one of the world’s largest and fastest growing communities of open source telephony users, with over 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality headquarters are in Los Angeles and company investors include Azure Capital Partners and Intel Capital.

Fonality, PBXtra, trixbox, and HUD are registered trademarks and Hybrid-Hosted and Anywhere Management are trademarks of Fonality. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Contacts

Fonality Inc.
Kerry Garrison, 310-861-4300 ext. 7036
trixbox Community Director
kgarrison {at} fonality(.)com