Product Reviews
Infoworld
PBXtra “Takes the Crown”, Beats Microsoft.
PBXtra is not only the most affordable system in this roundup, but is unique in being a managed product. Customers get a low-end Celeron tower PC that’s set up without incurring any installation costs, and a Web interface that lets users customize the system (such as recording voice prompts) without IT help. Fonality remotely monitors the system, provisions the phones, and backs up data off-site.
Network Computing
Fonality Best IP-PBX for SMBs, Beats ShoreTel & Others.
Fonality’s PBXtra was one of the easiest products to use, rivaled in that category only by ShoreTel’s. PBXtra also comes with all the ACD, auto-attendant and conferencing features we could ever ask for. Its reporting capabilities are limited compared with the other systems, but the one-two punch of low cost and ease of use still left Fonality’s PBXtra the clear winner of our Editor’s Choice award.
Network World
Fonality PBXtra “pulverizes” Cisco pricing.
Thrashing the new Cisco HAAS business model, Fonality has introduced Cisco functionality at scandalously low prices. Fonality’s new phone system release, PBXtra 4.0, has pulverized the pricing of the new Cisco HAAS business model. PBXtra 4.0 includes FindMe with Boomerang Mobile Integration. The new FindMe capability in PBXtra 4.0 ups the ante in the Find-Me-Follow-Me feature wars. PBXtra 4.0 also deepens branch office integration by merging directories, allowing callers to dial into one branch and find an employee at any other branch anywhere in the world.
PC Magazine
PBXtra Beats TalkSwitch & Digium, Wins Editors’ Choice.
Its excellent ease of use puts PBXtra at the top of my list. The hybrid hosted approach is great for businesses that want to minimize management issues. Although this appliance’s standard feature set isn’t as quite as comprehensive as those of the trixbox or Digium, the Fonality PBXtra Standard delivers the basic features SMBs need at a relatively low price, and it’s easier to deploy, manage, and use.
TMCnet
Fonality Beats Nortel on Price and Scalability.
Fonality was able to offer PBXtra at less than 50 percent of the cost of a proposed Nortel system and that included junking the existing Nortel phonesets with all new VoIP phonesets. Ecstatic over this “win” besting a well-known PBX manufacturer, Fonality stated, “BLADE is one example of how Fonality is now regularly beating out incumbents including, Cisco, Nortel and Alcatel in the small to medium business (SMB) market.”
