Fonality Announces Fonality trixbox Open Communications Certification Workshops for Telephony Professionals and System Integrators

Fonality Announces Fonality trixbox Open Communications Certification Workshops for Telephony Professionals and System Integrators

First Workshop to Be Held in Los Angeles, March 5th and 6th

Fonality®, a leader in open source, Asterisk®-based IP telephony systems, today announced the Fonality trixbox® Open Communications Certification (FtOCC) workshop, the first in a series of training and certification courses for the trixbox application platform. trixbox, the largest and fastest growing Asterisk-based platform and community, is quickly becoming the de facto standard for open source telephony. The FtOCC program will provide the tools and knowledge necessary to successfully implement trixbox in a business environment.

“Telephony is in the midst of a sea change and sea changes mean huge opportunity. But capitalizing on opportunity requires training and education,” said Chris Lyman, Fonality founder and CEO. “The FtOCC courses will quickly teach attendees how to begin earning real money from trixbox and Asterisk.”

The course will focus on a myriad of subjects including, but not limited to: VoIP, PBX deployment, network assessment, telephony troubleshooting, T1/PRI training, and IP handset education. The goal of the FtOCC is to arm data VARs, system integrators and telephony professionals with the knowledge needed to deploy and manage PBX installations for businesses from 1 to 1,000 employees.

“FtOCC is the next logical step for the trixbox community,” said Andrew Gillis, founder of trixbox and director of community development at Fonality. “We are building on the explosive adoption of the trixbox application and providing formal training and certification so businesses can be built upon its customization and deployment.”

The FtOCC course will be hosted by Andrew Gillis, trixbox project founder and Kerry Garrison, senior product manager for trixbox at Fonality and author of “trixBox Made Easy.” Additional training will be given by the trixbox engineering team. Respected partners in the telephony and VoIP industry will also be participating to provide information and free equipment to attendees.

For more information on registration for the FtOCC or to download trixbox 2.0 for free, visit www.trixbox.org.

About trixbox

trixbox, formerly Asterisk@Home, is the world’s largest Asterisk based community and open source voice over IP telephony platform. The value of trixbox is that, in under an hour, a non-technical user can download and install, not only Asterisk, but Linux, SugarCRM, MySQL, FreePBX and other applications. trixbox tightly integrates these open applications to work together on one physical server, providing companies with a PBX phone system and the surrounding applications they need to support their business. The trixbox community has the largest number of registered users and the most active forums for discussing and resolving open source telephony and Asterisk-specific issues.

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source, Asterisk-based IP telephony systems. PBXtra, Fonality’s award winning IP-PBX product line for small and medium businesses, includes a modified version of the popular open source Asterisk code base. Fonality has modified Asterisk to add reliability, stability and enterprise-class features, and is the world’s largest commercial Asterisk-based deployment. PBXtra uses Fonality’s patent pending architecture to deliver all the advanced features of an enterprise-class phone system and call center at 40 percent to 80 percent less than traditional offerings, and is deployed to more than 40,000 business users in the U.S. and other countries. Fonality’s trixbox, www.trixbox.org, the world’s largest and fastest growing community of users of Asterisk-based software, with an average of 75,000 downloads a month, provides a free, easy to install Asterisk-based VoIP phone system.

Fonality and trixbox are registered trademarks and PBXtra is a trademark of Fonality. Asterisk is a registered trademark of Digium, Inc. Fonality and PBXtra are not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, Digium Inc.
Contacts

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Alicia diVittorio, 415-321-1875
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