Have you ever wondered how huge businesses manage to deal with so many calls? From internal communications between employees, to collaboration with remote branches, to incoming calls from clients or customers, the backbone of a business phone system is their PBX, or "Private Branch Exchange." From the rudimentary days of the old switchboard systems, to the vast, feature rich business phone systems of today - it's more than just a means of communication - the PBX is how your business stays relevant in a fast paced business world. Let's have a look at what it takes to integrate the power of one of these into your everyday workflow.

It's not like deciding on your long distance carrier or cell phone. In those markets, the options are limited and it's mostly one size fits all.

But a PBX is an entirely different decision. Businesses have many different needs and specific desires when it comes to communications. This is one of those decisions that changes everything, determining your ability to scale with future needs and expansion, your ability to leverage the power of the internet in your communications network (with technologies like VoIP,) and your ability to remain bulletproof and immune to services outages, with things like battery backup UPS systems and remote administrative capabilities. With your business phone system playing such a vital role, let's take a look at a thing or two that you might need to keep in mind.

Employee salaries are the price of doing business. However, paying someone just to answer phones, or taking time away from an otherwise skilled employee to perform this menial task is really a waste of funds. You'll be glad to know that most of the same features can be overseen by many of the business phone systems these days, and usually can do it better than a human. At the most basic level, these "Auto Attendant" features includes options such as allowing the caller to navigate a (potentially huge) menu system, reach specific extensions or access information recordings. Now if only they had a phone system that will brew a pot of coffee...

Having your phone system perform automated tasks can save you time and money. Auto-dialing provides a means for the system to place calls (and more) all on it's own. At the most basic level, many of us associate PBX auto-dialing with robo-calls, or telemarketing. However, the systems can do much more than that, especially when blended with modern technology. For example, sending text messages to cell phones automated for informative personal, departmental, or company-wide alerts and notices. Voicemail from important numbers can be forwarded instantly, and many packages even provide text to speech for reading messages to the recipient, such as crucial e-mails, news or stock alerts, and more.

In the world of business phone systems, standout devices are manufactured by Avaya and Nortel. Not only have they lead the market for a number of years, and their devices can fit the needs of everything from small business targeted (though feature rich) low end systems, up through enterprise systems capable of handling thousands of phones, calls, and messages at once.

Avaya (formerly a branch of Lucent) systems are known for high quality VoIP integration, even in their entry level systems, as well as the high end systems. Among their most popularofferings are the popular CS-1000 Meridian system, and the higher end CS1500 and CS2100 systems.

Modernizing your current system, or installing your first, it doesn't matter. Upgrading your business phone system to harness the power of the current offerings is a no-brainer. Delving into the multitude of features provided by today's PBX systems is exciting and can bring huge rewards in terms of increasing your business's capabilities, productivity, and overall ability to communicate, whether it be with customers, or inter-office communications.

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Cisco Systems highlight

Cisco Unified Communications is a comprehensive IP communications system of voice,video,data, and mobility products. It enables more effective,better secured communications which directly affect both sales and profitability. It brings people closer by allowing for the modern way of communicating.

Cisco Unified Communications Manager (formerly Cisco Unified CallManager) software is the call-processing component of the Cisco Unified Communications system.

Additional features like unified messaging,collaborative contact centers, and multimedia response systems are enabled by the API's released by Cisco

Cisco Unified Communications Manager is installed on the Cisco 7800 Media Convergence Servers (MCSs) platforms and selected third party servers. It has a suite of integrated voice applications and utilities, including the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Attendant Console,the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Bulk Administration Tool,the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Call Detail Record (CDR) Analysis and Reporting Tool,an impromptu conferencing application and the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Assistant application.

The Cisco experts in our system have experience with (but not limited to) network products like the Cisco Catalyst 6513 Switch, Cisco Catalyst 6503-E Switch, Cisco 1841 Integrated Services Router and of course also with Cisco's Unified Communications portfolio.