Businesses must constantly maintain contact with their clients, and employees.People are constantly interconnected and being involved in those connections is crucial to keeping vital in today's economy. 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.

While evaluating phone systems for large enterprise, it's crucial that you consider expandability and capabilities for the future. Getting locked in to a limited capability business phone setup which could stagnate over time could leave you in the position of having to spend more in the long run, upgrading an existing service - or maybe that's exactly the point you're at now. Consider some of the options that a modern business phone system can bring you, keeping an eye toward the future.

Cabinet space and installation requirements are far too often overlooked. A business PBX can vary in size from that of a small rackmount computer, all the way up through the size of a refrigerator. A dazzling array of features is no small comfort if you fail to account for the amount of space the unit will take up, especially if space is a consideration.

Not only that, but installation is a sobering topic. Many powerful PBX systems take special proprietary setups, extended networking, or wholly gutting your existing phone system to make way for the new. Others may be able to use a standard phone system already in place, or even your basic computer network - though you may also end up sacrificing features for flexibility and convenience. Many times, the proprietary setups use their special connectors and wiring to deliver more data and extra features.

Not all the systems on the market are proprietary. Many commercial options are powered by an open source PBX package. 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. The software can be difficult to install and configure without experience, requiring a good deal of time to familiarize yourself with it.

No one can predict the future, or determine how their business will change and expand in the coming years. However, your choice of business phone system will be one of the crucial factors in shaping those coming years of expansion. The PBX forms the nervous system, the core of all your business dealings. Without choosing a powerful and business phone system though, that nervous system is left lacking, and your business crippled. Power and expandability are critical in finding the PBX that's the right fit for you.

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Cisco Call Manager is part of the Cisco Unified Communications suite. Cisco Unified Communications is a comprehensive IP communication platform of voice,video,data, and mobility products. It enables more effective,more personal communications that directly affect both revenue and profitability. The Cisco Unified Communications Suite brings people together by delivering a new way of communicating.

Cisco Unified Communications is part of an integrated solution that includes network infrastructure,security, flexible deployment and outsourced management options,end-user and partner financing packages,lifecycle services,network management solutions,mobility, and third-party communications applications.

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

Supplemental services such as unified messaging,collaborative contact centers,video and audio conferencing, and multimedia response systems are made possible through the API's released by Cisco

Cisco Unified Communications Manager comes preinstalled on the Cisco 7800 Series Media Convergence Servers (MCSs) platforms and some selected 3rd party servers. It has a range 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 Real-Time Monitoring Tool and the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Assistant suite.

The Cisco experts in our system have experience with (but not limited to) network products like the Cisco Catalyst 6513 Switch, Cisco Catalyst 4507R Switch, Cisco 801 ISDN Router, Cisco Catalyst 6509-NEB-A Switch, Cisco 837 ADSL Broadband Router, WS-C2960-48TC-L and of course also with Cisco's Unified Communications portfolio.