BroadSoft, Fonality get Certified

BroadSoft and Fonality have performed a cross-certification
ritual, assuring that their respective products play well together.

Specifically, BroadSoft has certified Fonality’s trixbox Pro
and PBXtra work with the BroadWorks VoIP applications platform. In addition, BroadSoft has joined the
Fonality Authorized Certified Ecosystem (FACE). Certifying that the two products work together
will allow the two companies to offer service providers a complete line of
hosted and premise-based unified communications offerings for customers of all
sizes; it should be noted Fonality focuses on the SMB space, however.

This dance gives Fonality Yet Another Way to sell its
products above and beyond its traditional VAR/channel partners (about 7,000 at
last count), its own website, and the bundles sold through/on Dell’s website. About the only place Fonality isn’t selling
right now is down at Costco, and this reporter wouldn’t put it past Chris Lyman
and company to cut a deal with a Big Box retailer by the end of the year along
with a FACEcon in ‘09.

BroadSoft is also wrapping up a busy week, having been
selected by Belgacom to provide IMS-related services and teaming with Samsung
Networks to provide hosted services for large enterprises in Korea.

For more:
– BroadSoft,
Fonality compatibility announcement

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