Fonality Selects Sonus to Enhance Network Performance and Capability

Fast Growing, Cloud Service Provider Chooses Sonus Session Border Controller Solution to Deliver VoIP and UC Services to Small and Mid-Size Businesses

Key Takeaways:

Fonality is a new customer for Sonus; Solution features Sonus SBC 5200s and Sonus NetScore^®.
New capabilities increase Fonality's network capability to support growth while reducing operational expenses through simplified design and fast deployment of new services and features.
Sonus was selected for its ability to scale and seamlessly enable all types of SIP traffic.

WESTFORD, Mass. – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), global leader in SIP communications, today announced that Fonality has selected Sonus to enhance the performance, reliability and capability of its Cloud-hosted VoIP and Unified Communications (UC) network. A new Sonus customer, Fonality is one of North America's fastest growing providers of business communications and has enabled more than two billion calls across the Cloud. The company offers small and mid-size businesses across North America, Australia and Japan fully Cloud-hosted VoIP, UC and contact center services as well as hybrid Cloud-managed, premise-based IP-PBX, UC and contact center solutions.

The solution features Sonus^® SBC 5200 session border controllers (SBC) and will enhance Fonality's current Cloud-hosted network by simplifying it through SIP trunk consolidation while also reducing their operating costs. The new capabilities are expected to further harden the security of Fonality's network and enable the firm to accommodate rapid new user growth for those demanding SIP-based UC and contact center application features. Fonality will also deploy Sonus NetScore, a network performance analyzer that enables service providers and enterprises to increase operational efficiencies and maximize return on investment. Sonus was selected by Fonality based on the ability to provide a highly scalable, reliable SBC platform which leverages the benefits of SIP to reduce costs and add capabilities.

Quotes

"Investing in our network and the advanced communications services we provide is fundamental to the commitment we make to small and mid-size businesses each day," said David Scult, CEO at Fonality. "In a competitive review process we examined the Sonus SBC 5200 solution thoroughly and we chose it because we wanted to be certain that our network had the ability to scale and grow effectively."

"Fonality is reshaping how growing businesses communicate by offering Cloud-hosted, full featured Unified Communications and Contact Center capabilities at a fraction of the cost of legacy PBX providers," said Todd Abbott, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Sonus. "Our portfolio of SBCs is purpose-built to help service providers experience the benefits of SIP to help deliver new Cloud-ready features and capabilities for the customers they serve."

Other Facts

A recent Tolly Group report revealed that the Fonality Connect Cloud-hosted solution costs about 43 percent less on average over a three-year period and delivers 70 percent lower first-year out of pocket costs than legacy solutions from Cisco, Avaya and Shoretel.
Fonality's HUD for Mobile was a 2011 Internet Telephony magazine 'Product of the Year' award winner. Fonality HUD for Mobile extends office communications features to Apple and Android devices so users can access presence and other UC features from the palm of their hand.
Infonetics Research shows Sonus as the fastest-growing SBC vendor ("Service Provider VoIP Equipment and Subscribers," 4Q11 report); growing almost 4x faster than the market average.
Sonus SBC 5200 supports 64,000 sessions on a single server; more than twice the capacity of the leading SBC competitor.
In partnership with John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Sonus recently announced the first-edition of Session Border Controllers For Dummies reference book.

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Tags/Keywords

Sonus Networks, Sonus, SONS, Fonality, trixbox, HUD, IP-based network solutions, VoIP trunking, SIP trunking services, VoIP, Cloud VoIP communications, unified communications, UC, IP, TDM, SBC, session border controller, SBC 5200, Sonus NetScore

About Fonality

Founded in 2004, Fonality is a pioneer in business communications, delivering cloud-based and hybrid-hosted solutions that increase mobility and enhance productivity for small and mid-size businesses. The company offers an enterprise-grade feature set at a fraction of the cost or complexity of legacy providers. Investors include Intel Capital, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Azure Capital Partners. For more information go to Fonality.com or call 877-FONALITY.

About Sonus Networks

Sonus Networks, Inc. is a leader in IP networking with proven expertise in delivering secure, reliable and scalable next-generation infrastructure and subscriber solutions. With customers in over 50 countries across the globe and over a decade of experience in transforming networks to IP, Sonus has enabled service providers and enterprises to capture and retain users and generate significant ROI. Sonus products include session border controllers, policy/routing servers, subscriber feature servers and media and signaling gateways. Sonus products are supported by a global services team with experience in design, deployment and maintenance of some of the world's largest and most complex IP networks. For more information, visit www.sonus.net or call 1-855-GO-SONUS.

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For Fonality:
Carrie Kelly, 469-252-7400 x6001
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