People are constantly interconnected and exchanging valuable, important information. As a business, your phone system, or "PBX," is the key to keeping communications flowing, ensuring employees and clients alike are able exchange information. Before diving in though, there are a few things you should consider.
In a business, it's crucial that you don't get locked in to a limited capability business phone setup which won't scale with your growing needs. Consider some of the options that a modern business phone system can bring you, keeping an eye toward the future.
Power outages happen regularly. It is comical that despite having a cutting edge phone service, you have to realise that it's going to be driven by a power network that largely runs on a power grid engineered to the needs of the last century. An worse, a modern computerised system can be brought to its knees by a power outage. Luckily many modern PBX systems come replete with their own integrated UPS (uninterruptible power supply") to prevent this from leaving your business dead in the water, should the power go out. Even in the event of a blackout, the backbone of your business will remain functional, taking calls as usual.
Modern software has seen a flood of high quality open-source development, and the PBX market is no exception. The "Asterisk" project is a suite of high powered, feature rich software PBX tools, very popular with many businesses. The software runs on a standard PC, along with specialized interface cards to connect you to the outside phone system (including everything from standard phone lines, through ISDN or T1 lines.) Features are rich, including robo-dialing, auto-operator menu systems, voicemail, voice over IP, and much more.
However, if you go this route, you'll either need to administer all of this yourself, or hire an expert to setup and administer the system for you. With the full features of the suit, also comes the process of installing it.
We've come a long way since the days of the early telephone and switchboard. The sheer power delivered by computer driven phone systems, like the modern business PBX, can do wonders for your business. But each business has unique needs and demands, and there is really no one size fits all solution. It's my hope that some of the information above will help you determine the best system for your growing business.
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