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 to stay in contact with one another. But what options are there in this ever-changing market?

How you go about buying an integrating a PBX into your business will depend largely on what sort of features and services it provides, as well as how you plan to host it. How much growth do you expect, and how long should the system continue to serve you? Would you benefit more from having it on site, or having a third party host it? What kind of infrastructure do you have in place already, and can you use it in the new system?

Answering some of these questions can be vital to finding the perfect fit for your business, and its PBX. To help you find those answers, here's some food for thought...

Hiring an operator or receptionist is often times unnecessary, or just unfeasible if you have too many incoming calls. The same tasks performed by receptionist on the phone can be taken care of by many of the current PBX systems. At the most basic level, these "Auto Attendant" features includes options such as allowing your users to brows through a touchtone activated menu, 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. Recordings or messages can be delivered as well, 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.

Cisco Systems are one of the most trusted names in business PBX systems, delivering high quality and flexibility, to their networking expertise. With a focus on security and stability, they are a popular choice among many businesses, large and small.

The Cisco "Unity" line of products are a popular choice, for delivering expandability and flexibility at many business sizes. They also bring budget PBX power to the market with their SPA-400 and SPA-9000 which can work in conjunction to provide precisely the kind of performance demanded by small businesses, at an affordable price point.

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 modern telephony 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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Mitel

Mitel is known for a large portfolio of applications, call processing solutions and intuitive desktop devices. With products such as the Mitel SX-200 for SMB to the Carrier grade Mitel 3600 Hosted Key System.

Mitel has been in the enterprice communication business for over 30 years. Today Mitel is more an IP Communications company with it's focus on very specific vertical and horizontal applications and markets.

Some of Mitels more best-selling products include: 3300 ICP and the Mitel 3600 Hosted Key System.

Presently one of there newest products is the Mitel vPoint HD. This is VCON's latest software client for personal conferencing. vPoint HD not only encompasses the highest quality audio and video on the market today, but also includes features and functionality that move it beyond a desktop videoconferencing application. Since recently we have included Mitel vPoint HD consultants in our directory.

Mitel Applications Suite

The Mitel Applications Suite includes a wizard to assist in rapidly deploying not only NuPoint Messenger, Mobile Extension and Teleworker Solution, but also the 3300 IP Communications Platform (ICP). Users are deployed consistently across different applications, which further eases management. Ongoing administration of the applications is completed via a user friendly, web based interface. Adding a user to one or more applications is easily accomplished using Mitel Applications Suite. All this simplified management means you spend less time deploying and administering users and more time focused on your business.

Live Business Gateway

Mitel's Live Business Gateway provides telephony enablement to Office Communications Server 2007. As part of the Mitel Applications and Services Gateway family allowing enterprises to implement IP- based solutions through a smooth, intelligent evolution, the Live Business Gateway integrates the Office Communications Server 2007 and Mitel applications to provide access to key business resources in the moment they are needed, resulting in faster decision making and issue resolution.