October 4, 2006 6:39 AM PDT

Fonality buys into Asterisk community

Fonality on Wednesday said that it has acquired trixbox, an online community around open-source voice over IP software Asterisk.

Fonality, which sells IP-based telephony systems, said that it will keep the trixbox software open source and commit additional resources to developing it.

Trixbox is designed as a PBX system for small and medium size business, which can be downloaded as integrated package with Asterix, Linux, SugarCRM, MySQL and FreePBX.

Digium, a company which offers support around the Asterisk software, recently received $13.2 million in funding.

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNET's Green Tech blog. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Before that, he was executive editor at IT publication InfoWorld. E-mail Martin.

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