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Fonality Provides Free Replacement Phone Systems to Customers Devastated by Hurricane Ike

Fonality’s Hybrid-Hosted Architecture Makes Disaster Recovery a One-Hour Process

LOS ANGELES — Fonality, a leading provider of open source unified communication systems for businesses, today announced that it will provide free replacement phone systems to any of its customers devastated by Hurricane Ike. The new phone systems will be offered to Fonality customers that are under an active support agreement and operate their businesses within the affected areas. Customers should visit http://www.fonality.com/hurricaneike for further details.

“Fonality was created to provide small businesses with phone systems they can depend on. We have a responsibility to any customer overwhelmed by this storm to help them get their phones and their business operations back on track as quickly as possible,” said Chris Lyman, CEO of Fonality. “Fonality’s products were built to be disaster proof, no matter what Mother Nature throws at us. With our hybrid-hosted architecture, critical phone system data is stored securely off-site, which means that customers can restore their systems and be back in business within an hour.”

Many of Fonality’s 5,000 customers rely on its hybrid-hosted model for disaster relief. This unique patented architecture combines the reliability and feature set of an on-premise PBX, with disaster recovery peace of mind.

About Fonality

Fonality, www.fonality.com, is a leader in open source phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by more than 5,000 companies and 125,000 end users in more than 100 countries, Fonality's award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 350,000,000 mission critical phone calls. The PBXtra and trixbox® Pro product lines are based on Fonality's patent-pending Anywhere Management™ Hybrid-Hosted™ architecture, and 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 more than 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. Fonality’s headquarters are in Los Angeles with additional offices in Australia and Argentina. Company investors include Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund, Intel Capital, and Azure Capital Partners.