Business VoIP Plan in your local area
What is business VoIP?
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Reliable and affordable phone service is at the core of most modern businesses. In today's business world, that can be achieved by taking advantage of the existing VoIP business plans.
You might wonder what VoIP actually is.VoIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol, the system of placing and receiving calls via an internet connection. VoIP is also commonly referred to as digital phone, broadband phone, internet telephony, IP telephony and broadband telephony. VoIP phones allow businesses to utilize the most advance phone features also offered by traditional land lines but at a fraction of the cost. Businesses can make the most of a digital phone service available by integrating multiple phone lines or even incorporating mobile capabilities.
In the basic functionality, business VoIP services are very similar to Residential VoIP Services. The only difference would be business VoIP includes a PBX(Private Branch eXchange) and most providers offer advance business features such as music on hold, extension management, automated attendant, find me - follow me, desk to desk calling, conference calling and more. On top of that, business VoIP usually comes with private internet connections to ensure the clarity and quality of the calls made.
PBX interconnects internal phone lines within an organization via trunk lines and also connects them to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). Some calling plans include an on premise or hosted PBX.
VoIP Phones VS. Traditional Phones
While not all companies qualify for VoIP, the demand of Business VoIP has been increasing with the improvement of internet connections over the years. Increased productivity and scalability are the results of using VoIP Phone.
VoIP consists of digital signals which would be easily transmitted over broadband internet connection using wireless VoIP products to obtain crystal clear communication with cell phone-like mobility. What does this mean to your business? Increased mobility without worrying about loosing important deals or phone calls.
With advance features such as voicemail to email, or find me - follow me, it has proven its effectiveness compared to traditional phone lines. Having voicemail delivered to your email account as a digital voicemail is an extraordinary feature which helps productivity in the business environment. Now, not only you can save the voicemail in your computer, you could also archive them.
PBX
The name itself tells a little bit about what a Private Branch Exchange or PBX is. It is an automatic switchboard which provides the same function of old-fashioned telephone operators switching wires and plugs. However, hence the name on-premise PBX is typically housed at a business location not at the phone company. Businesses which use an on-premise PBX usually press a number to dial out like the number ‘9.’ With a PBX system, a company only needs to lease as many lines from the telephone company as the maximum number of outgoing calls at one time. This is usually around 10% of the number of extensions. A PBX usually includes business features like an auto-attendant, call forwarding and hold music.
Benefits
- COSTS – A substantial cost savings especially when upgrading from a traditional TDM (time-division multiplexing) phone system. In the long run this will save you money.
- SCALABILITY – increased efficiency and less bandwidth, customizable based on business needs
- FEATURES – ability to add features previously available only to large businesses until now
Hosted PBX
A hosted PBX phone system delivers PBX functionality as a service, available over a network or the internet. Instead of buying PBX equipment, users contract for PBX services from a hosted PBX service provider who hosts the functionality as a simple option to the small business phone system. Most of the benefits of owning a PBX business phone system apply to a hosted business system by the click of a mouse on the provider’s website. A hosted PBX digital phone service is a way to have a scalable solution for simple straightforward business needs.
Benefits
- COSTS – fast and inexpensive install
- CONVENIENCE – low maintenance
- SCALABILITY – standardized set of services
- FEATURES –potentially limited flexibility because the features are chosen by a service provider. Most service providers maintain many competitive options for small to medium sized businesses.
