Former Nortel Subsidiary Selects Fonality Over Nortel Product
5/18/07 – Fonality, the Culver City-based open-source telephony company, today announced that after an in-depth evaluation to select a new voice-over-IP-capable phone system, BLADE Network Technologies, a former subsidiary of Nortel, selected Fonality’s PBXtra over a comparable system from Nortel.
Fonality says it 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. The company claims that, in addition to Nortel, it is regularly beating out incumbents including Cisco and Alcatel in the small to medium size business market.
BLADE ultimately chose PBXtra because it is a fully-functional IP PBX system that is easier to scale, use and manage than a Nortel system, according to Fonality.
Fonality says PBXtra is now deployed in more than 2,000 businesses with over 45,000 users in 37 countries.
The company says all flavors of PBXtra—Standard, Professional and Call Center—support advanced enterprise features like voice-over-IP calling, advanced auto-attendant features, telecommuters, branch offices, drag-and-drop call control, conferencing and intra-office intercom for a fraction of the cost of traditional phone systems with similar features.
Fonality - www.fonality.com
BLADE Network Technologies – www.bladenetwork.net
