Fonality has recently announced the launch of the Asterisk-based trixbox Appliance. The Appliance is meant to be an enterprise-grade solution, based on the open-source Asterisk, which is also the basis of Trixbox, one of the more popular flavors of Asterisk. The Trixbox Appliance is also similar to the competing Asterisk Appliance by Digium.

The trixbox Appliance is essentially an industrial grade rack-mountable server that comes pre-installed with the Asterisk-based trixbox software. The appliance is powered by Intel processors and comes with dual hard disk and dual power supply redundancy options. The trixbox Appliance ships with pre-configured Sangoma line cards with built-in Octastic echo-cancellation hardware.

The trixbox appliance ships with trixbox version 2.2, the latest release of the distribution that integrates Asterisk with Apache, MySQL, SugarCRM and PHP. One notable addition to this release is AsteriskNow, which is a GUI for Asterisk, and an automatic update service for keeping all trixbox components up-to-date with the latest security patches and features.

Priced at $999, the trixbox Appliance is aimed at small to medium businesses (with 5 to 500 employees). The Appliance can be purchased for use with VoIP, E1/T1, or up to 48 analog lines. Fonality also offers professional support options to clients. Technical support packages can be purchased in five, ten and 15 hour ad hoc blocks, or in annual packages, which gives customers 24/7 access to Fonality support engineers.

In terms of industry support, the appliance handset manufacturers like Aastra, and VoIP service providers like Teliax, GrandStream and VoicePlus have announced support for the appliance.

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