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Fonality: Open Source VoIP Meets Managed Services

Written By
JP
Joe Panettieri
Apr 17, 2008

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Panettieri
for this link. ]

“Chris Lyman is setting in the middle of a perfect storm. As CEO
of Fonality, Lyman is building an IP-PBX company that leverages
Asterisk (an open source platform) and embraces managed service
providers. In other words, Fonality has converged three hot markets
(unified communications, open source and managed services) into a
single solution.

“I realize that big vendors–Avaya, Cisco Systems, Microsoft,
Nortel Networks, etc.–are promoting unified communications
solutions. But if you’re an MSP looking to get into IP telephony,
it may be hard to ignore Fonality’s value proposition…”


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JP

Joe Panettieri

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