Fonality PBXtra Fully Interoperable with Cbeyond's BeyondVoice with SIPconnect Service

May 8, 2006; 08:52 AM
LOS ANGELES - Fonality, the leader in affordable IP-PBX phone systems for small businesses and the world's largest distributed deployment of Asterisk(TM), today announced that its PBXtra product line is fully interoperable with Cbeyond's BeyondVoice with SIPconnect service. PBXtra, used in conjunction with Cbeyond, provides superior voice quality and cost savings for small and medium business (SMB) customers. The all-digital combination eliminates the audio degradation resulting from digital-to-analog conversions and saves businesses money because no additional equipment is required to switch calls from digital to analog formats.

"Fonality differentiates its approach to the small business IP-PBX arena by offering powerful PBX features and an intuitive client interface at a remarkably affordable price," said Chris Gatch, CTO of Cbeyond. "Cbeyond is pleased to enhance the deployment of Fonality IP PBXs with our BeyondVoice with SIPconnect integrated bundles. By combining Fonality and Cbeyond, small and medium businesses can enjoy the same IP-PBX and VoIP capabilities typically available only to larger enterprises."

Compatibility with Cbeyond's SIPconnect service is another enhancement to Fonality's PBXtra product line, which provides small businesses with enterprise-class phone systems for 40 percent to 80 percent less than the cost of traditional PBX systems. PBXtra's features include telecommuting, branch office support, voicemail-to-email, click-to-call, VoIP, softphones, support for IP and analog phones and advanced call center functionality. PBXtra is the first and only enterprise-class phone system that can be installed and administered remotely using a Web browser, which streamlines many of the complex tasks of PBX setup, administration and management.

"With this combination of Fonality and Cbeyond, the days of poor VoIP call quality for SMBs are over," said Chris Lyman, Fonality's founder and CEO. "PBXtra customers using Cbeyond's SIPconnect achieve compounded cost savings and get great sounding end-to-end digital calls."

For more information about Fonality and PBXtra, visit www.fonality.com.

About Cbeyond

Cbeyond (NASDAQ:CBEY) is an Atlanta-based managed services provider that delivers integrated packages of voice, mobile and broadband services to small businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston and Los Angeles. Cbeyond offers core communications services like local and long-distance voice, mobile and broadband Internet access along with enhanced applications, including voicemail, email, Web hosting, data backup, file-sharing, VPN and more. Cbeyond manages these services over a private, 100 percent Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) facilities-based network. For more information on Cbeyond, visit www.cbeyond.net.

About Fonality

Fonality is the leading provider of affordable IP-PBX systems for small businesses. PBXtra Standard Edition delivers all the advanced features of an enterprise-class phone system at an affordable price and is so easy to use that it eliminates expensive phone support and configuration costs. PBXtra Call Center Edition provides businesses with call center functionality in addition to the PBX capabilities found in Standard Edition. PBXtra is deployed to thousands of business users in the U.S. and other countries. Fonality's products are available direct and through a network of more than 1,100 resellers.