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XO Communications: XO Communications and Fonality Announce Interoperability Certification


Published on 2009-02-04 05:57:35, Last Modified on 2009-02-04 05:58:40 - Market Wire
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HERNDON, VA and LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - February 4, 2009) - XO Communications (OTCBB: [ XOHO ]) and Fonality announced today that Fonality PBXtra and trixbox Pro phone systems have passed XO Communications' certification for standard interoperability with XO SIP, XO's award-winning SIP-based integrated voice and data communications solution.

XO Communications is a leading provider of business-class VoIP services and solutions, supporting more than 15,000 businesses and 500,000 customer employees. Fonality's IP-PBX phone systems are known for reliability, superior features, simplified deployment, and offering cost savings up to 80 percent off the price of competing solutions.

The interoperability of XO SIP with Fonality PBXtra and trixbox Pro phone systems assures businesses that deploying a Fonality IP-PBX with XO SIP is a simple task. The certification process created by XO Communications tested Fonality's IP-PBX in more than 400 real-world environment simulations to ensure maximum reliability.

"Fonality has long been associated with affordable business telephony, from our low-cost hardware and software solutions, to our simplified deployment," said Corey Brundage, vice president of product at Fonality. "With the addition of XO SIP we offer yet another way for businesses worldwide to reduce costs and simplify operations."

"We are excited to continue to expand the number of IP-PBX platforms that are interoperable with our award-winning SIP solution," said Nicola Jackson, director of voice and converged services at XO Communications. "With interoperability of XO SIP and the Fonality PBXtra and trixbox Pro phone systems, businesses can easily deploy and manage an end-to-end IP Telephony solution that offers powerful IP-based voice and data services and applications."

Businesses interested in upgrading their phone system to the award-winning Fonality platform can learn more at [ www.pbxtra.com ] and [ www.trixbox.com ]. Companies interested in deploying SIP-based integrated voice and data services to maximize their network efficiency and IT budget should visit [ http://xo.com/smb/voip/Pages/sip.aspx ] for information on XO SIP solutions.

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.

About XO Communications

XO Communications, a subsidiary of XO Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: [ XOHO ]), is a leading nationwide provider of advanced communications services and solutions for businesses, enterprises, government, carriers and service providers. Its customers include more than half of the Fortune 500, in addition to leading cable companies, carriers, content providers and mobile network operators. Utilizing its unique combination of high-capacity nationwide and metro networks and broadband wireless capabilities, XO offers customers a broad range of managed voice, data and IP services with proven performance, scalability and value in more than 75 metropolitan markets across the United States. For more information, visit [ www.xo.com ].

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